I’m currently shopping around for something a bit faster than ollama and because I could not get it to use a different context and output length, which seems to be a known and long ignored issue. Somehow everything I’ve tried so far did miss one or more critical features, like:

  • “Hot” model replacement, so loading and unloading models on demand
  • Function calling
  • Support of most models
  • OpenAI API compatibility (to work well with Open WebUI)

I’d be happy about any recommendations!

  • hendrikEnglish
    1•39 minutes ago

    I’m also aware of LocalAI with automatic model swapping and OpenAI compatible API.

    But unless I’m mistaken, they all use ggml behind the scenes? So you might want to look for something that uses vllm or exllama or something if you want a completely different backend.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    3•4 hours ago

    I don’t think you are going to find anything faster. Ollama is pretty much as fast as it gets

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 hour ago

      There are many projects out there optimizing the speed significantly. Ollama is unbeaten in the convenience though

    • @[email protected]English
      1•52 minutes ago

      It’s not, by far. But vllm or SGLang don’t support switching the model… such a shame.

  • @theunknownmuncherEnglish
    6•7 hours ago

    Ummm… did you try /set parameter num_ctx # and /set parameter num_predict #? Are you using a model that actually supports the context length that you desire…?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 hour ago

      Yeah, but there are many open issues on GitHub related to these settings not working right. I’m using the API, and just couldn’t get it to work. I used a request to generate a json file, and it never generated one longer than about 500 lines. With the same model on vllm, it worked instantly and generated about 2000 lines

    • hendrikEnglish
      2•42 minutes ago

      Btw, Ollama is a software to run AI models. Deepseek is just a company. Or a model file or a service. But that’s not what OP is looking for. They want to run a model. And that needs software like Ollama.