Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice. I recently installed OpenClaw on a brand-new M4 Mac mini with 32GB RAM, 256GB internal storage, and a 2TB external SSD.
My local models are installed through Ollama on the external SSD, and they run pretty fast when I use them directly through Ollama. However, when I run the same models through OpenClaw, each interaction takes several minutes, which makes it basically unusable.
My goal is to use local models for small personal projects, so I’m wondering if I missed something during the setup process. I’ve seen some people say they were able to get OpenClaw working well with local models, so I’m not sure what’s different in my case.
I already tried reducing the context window to 131k, but it didn’t seem to help much.
Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any OpenClaw settings, Ollama configuration changes, or performance tips I should check?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully this thread can also help others running into the same issue.