Pipeline parallelism in llama.cpp may be wasting your VRAM
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In three linesllama.cpp enables pipeline parallelism by default, consuming 4x more VRAM with no speed benefit. Disabling it via -DGGML_SCHED_MAX_COPIES=1 reduces memory allocation without performance impact (tested on Vulkan with Qwen 27B).Read source
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