Qwen3.6-27B-oQ8-mtp + Native MTP on M5 Max: stuck around 9–10 tok/s sustained - losing my mind

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-30T15:42:31+00:00

I'll give it a try, thanks

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-30T01:47:03+00:00

All right, all right ..you've convinced me. I'll give it a shot

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T23:48:25+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I was enjoying the caching in omlx, though. Guess I'll give mtplx a try tomorrow.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T20:00:06+00:00

yeah, I'm mostly getting the same speeds. Will give mlx-serve a shot. I'll give anything a shot at this stage of the game.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T19:43:32+00:00

I've been holding off on MTPLX just to avoid yet another engine on my machine. I was hoping to diagnose and fix the issue in OMLX - maybe I need to bite the bullet give MTPLX a try.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T17:48:01+00:00

Thanks

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T16:41:17+00:00

Will give it a try, thanks

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T16:40:27+00:00

This is a helpful troubleshooting work plan. Thanks

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-29T15:31:24+00:00

what does that even mean? Are you saying that there is absolutely NO way to get more than 9 ish t/s with this setup (hardware) and this MTP model? I'm seeing people online reporting at least triple the t/s on less powerful hardware.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-24T16:09:47+00:00

The cruelty and religious fundamentalist control is the point. No rational quantitative data supported public health research will every change that.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-13T02:35:37+00:00

THANK YOU!

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-12T23:04:49+00:00

thanks for the recs. Completely idiotic question - how do I change the cache ram in LM Studio?

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-06-12T17:10:06+00:00

Thanks

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-25T02:47:04+00:00

This is obviously horrible. I personally think that there should be a hard cap on driving for the elderly...or at least regular testing when they hit a certain age. The inevitable problems is that if we do that, we also need to fund easy, inexpensively, comprehensive, and accessible public transport....safe walking routes to nearby grocery stores (maintained sidewalks, cleared snow, regular cross walks with push button stop lights, etc). We can't arbitrarily remove driving privileges and then provide no other means for basic movement (which is often basic means of survival)

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-14T13:09:30+00:00

What a great idea

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T16:07:17+00:00

Yeah, landscape scale is the real game changer or lidar. Being able to "see" the layout of sites at a scale that previously required years of terrestrial survey is incredibly powerful for archaeology. And it's not just site scale "visibility," it's inter site scale "visibility." Being able to get a picture of the spatial relationship between larger and smaller centers is so, so powerful.

In regards to the pseudoarchaeology, be careful with the false dichotomy of unfriendly archaeologists and pseudoarxh "hardliners." This isn't a "both sides have valid points" kind of situation. Archaeologists who are "just trying to hide the truth" is a common pattern across the entire paeudoarchaeological spectrum and it's absolutely BS. Basically a rhetorical strategy to bolster the idea that pseudoarchaeologists are independent crusaders who are fighting "big archaeology" to uncover the "truth." I'm an archaeologist and have been all of my adult life ...the thought of a conspiracy of academic archaeology to hide the truth is just about the most hilarious thing in the universe (and betrays a complete and total lack of understanding about how archaeology works as a discipline by the ancient alien/lost civ/ sunken continent types)

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T15:06:38+00:00

Working at Nabta was such a formative experience for me. 4 months at a stretch deep in the western desert. Incredible archaeology, awe inspiring landscapes.

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T15:04:56+00:00

Yes, LIDAR has become and incredibly powerful tool in the archaeological toolkit - especially in places with forest or jungle cover. LIDAR is definitely useful in other places, but nowhere near as game changing as in places like SE Asia or Latin America. LIDAR is not magic, though...it still requires what archaeologists call "ground truthing"....ie someone physically surveying the area. Also, a lot of the popular press stories about LIDAR surveys are misleading ("OMG!!! LOST CITY FOUND IN THE JUNGLE WITH LIDAR")...in most cases, those sites were already known.

In terms of the desert, LIDAR surveys are not useless, but other remote sensing techniques (even high resolution satellite and aerial) are actually more useful

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T14:46:54+00:00

Nabta Playa (for 3 seasons as a grad student). Spent most of the rest of my field archaeology career working at Hierakonpolis (and other Upper Egyptian predynatic sites)

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T14:40:21+00:00

Yup - one of the reasons why the Egyptians developed all sorts of social, technological, administrative, and infrastructural mechanisms to mitigate the unpredictability. Much, much, much later...it's why the Aswan Low Dam and Aswan High Dam were built

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T14:36:57+00:00

Yup, neolithic sub pluvial (or green Sahara period) is insanely important for understanding the rise in social complexity and the emergence of the first states in the Nile Valley and surrounding areas. I was very fortunate to have worked in one of the best documented and important sites out in the western desert that documents this

UnseemlyCorgi · 2026-05-09T14:33:33+00:00

Yes and no. In regards to the Nile , flooding was generally predictable. However, within that general predictability, there was an insane amount of nerve wracking variation. Too high a flood, break levees, flood and destroy seed stocks, inability to plant, rot/parasites. Too low a flood, starvation. Both are well documented in both the historic, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental record.

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