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6 points by dwa3592 11 days ago · 9 comments

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prabhanjana_c 11 days ago

Very interesting. I am always curious on llama.cpp and vllm. All the best for samosa inference engine. One reason I am not running local models on my Mac now a days, is My Mac book pro is getting heated more. Otherwise would love to run couple (at least 1 to 3) of local models continuously.

  • dwa3592OP 10 days ago

    >>One reason I am not running local models on my Mac now a days, is My Mac book pro is getting heated more

    Samosa was optimized for keeping mac's temp in check. This is one of the important reasons for creating this - no excessive wear/tear to the machine. https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat#the-three-princi...

    maybe give it a try and let me know if your macbook is getting heated while running this?

    • prabhanjana_c 10 days ago

      Actually quite cool. My mac is not getting heated. will check more. Memory pressure is very low. I see it (memory used) just increased from 22GB to 27Gb(on 48GB pro), while using somosa command(again a very basic test). Not really measured tokens/s, but I see it's reasonable.

      • dwa3592OP 10 days ago

        Thanks for testing. Actually if you open the samosa app; it will show you memory consumption, tokens/sec etc. Let me know what you think.

        • prabhanjana_c 10 days ago

          Great, yes with samosa app can see details, it is 6.52tok/sec, 4.05GB memory. Use case, I have been waiting was to run some agents in my Mac continuously with local models, but without my Mac getting heated. Seems I can experiment with samosa inference engine.

aanet 11 days ago

+1 for pairing Samosa with Chāt :D :D

  • dwa3592OP 11 days ago

    i was pleasantly surprised to find out it hadn't been done until now.

MrGrinchh 11 days ago

This is pretty sick. 7tokens/second is not fast but still seems useful.

daef 9 days ago

any way to run samosa in opencode?

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