Hello. I'm trying various approaches to do a very simple coding task with a local model.
I looked at the official Pi documentation and a YouTube video, and tried to connect my llama.cpp model in model.json, but when I run Pi from the terminal it keeps starting with an “unknown”.
I asked Gemini about it, but the problem isn’t resolved. What should I look into?
Thank you.
I'm testing running local LLMs on a gaming mini PC (AMD 7840HS, 32 GB RAM) paired with an eGPU (Radeon 9060XT with 16 GB VRAM). Since I'm not very familiar with using llama.cpp, I kept getting unsatisfactory results, but with the recent Gemma4 24B A4B IQ4 NL model I finally reached 25.9 t/s. I even connected it to OpenCode and tried asking questions from my codebase, and it seems usable at this level.
llama-server -hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-IQ4_NL
--fit on
--fit-ctx 128000
--fit-target 256
-np 1
-fa on
--no-mmap
--mlock
--threads 8
-b 512 -ub 256
-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0
--temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0.0
--presence-penalty 0.0 --repeat-penalty 1.0 --reasoning-budget -1
This is the result of using it this way.
Increase -b and -ub any further, it won't even load. Are there any unnecessary arguments or arguments that could be optimized?
Thanks.