85cc432e2c server: add router device memory margin parameter for dynamic unloading (#21231)
* server: add --models-memory-max parameter to allow dynamically unloading models when they exceed a memory size threshold

estimate with to-be-loaded model size included

use no_alloc to get memory requirements for model load

only set model memory_mb if not previously calculated

use memory margin instead of total size limit, apply to each device separately

add server memory debug logging

move llama_context_device_memory function to llama-ext.h

fix model count exceeded check

improve memory_per_device map naming

improve variable naming, fix style

also strip models memory margin from child processes

cont : clean-up

replace device memory map with buft memory map. Use llama_get_memory_breakdown

extract duplicated check into helper function

move model memory estimation to subprocess

precompute name->buft map, map GPU host types to CPU buft

cleanup unused variable

remove duplicated init calls

* adapt to upstream changes

* wip

* common_memory_reports internface

* SERVER_ROLE_MEASURE

* server-models-sched

* fix build

* server : fix memory accounting of measure children and claim spin

A measure child runs no_alloc, so the free memory it reports does not
include its estimate: subtracting self there erased the memory held by
other processes, down to zero with --fit on, and the next load could
overshoot the margin. Subtract self only for instance reports.

A queued load only checked --models-max before claiming, so when the
memory margin blocked it behind a busy model, load() threw and the
waiter retried in a tight loop. Refuse the claim while the limits are
exceeded and no idle model can be unloaded, so the waiter sleeps on
the condition variable until one goes idle.

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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
Co-authored-by: Pascal <admin@serveurperso.com>
2026-10-27 12:14:42 +01:00
2026-10-27 11:49:12 +01:00
2026-06-12 15:53:26 +02:00
2026-10-17 02:11:56 +02:00
2026-02-02 08:38:55 +02:00

llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

# curl
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh

# powershell
irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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