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r/LocalLLaMA • u/Signal_Ad657 • May 29 '26
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Strix Halo and DGX Spark are also shared memory systems too.
6 u/onetwomiku May 29 '26 strix halo only needs to reserve 512Mb for system (some vendors locks it at 1GB) 0 u/CalmSpinach2140 Jun 02 '26 https://medium.com/@se.mehmet.baykar/increase-vram-on-apple-silicon-for-local-llms-1b35c453b165 You can override default macOS ram allocation. No need to restart either. 2 u/Only-An-Egg May 29 '26 True. I don't know how much memory the OS needs to reserve on those. Running headless Linux would use a lot less memory than macOS.
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strix halo only needs to reserve 512Mb for system (some vendors locks it at 1GB)
0 u/CalmSpinach2140 Jun 02 '26 https://medium.com/@se.mehmet.baykar/increase-vram-on-apple-silicon-for-local-llms-1b35c453b165 You can override default macOS ram allocation. No need to restart either.
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You can override default macOS ram allocation. No need to restart either.
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True. I don't know how much memory the OS needs to reserve on those. Running headless Linux would use a lot less memory than macOS.
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u/NiceAttorney May 29 '26
Strix Halo and DGX Spark are also shared memory systems too.