* Support calling mlock() on loaded model data on Linux and macOS
This is enabled by a new --mlock command line option.
Using mlock() disables swapping and memory compression for the model
data. Doing so can be useful on systems where the model takes up a
large fraction of system RAM. In my experience, macOS is quite eager to
start compressing llama.cpp's memory, which then makes it halt for a few
seconds while it decompresses, even with a model that uses "only" 25GB
out of 32GB.
Of course, this comes at the cost of forcing the system to swap or
compress other processes' memory instead, so it needs to be used with
care and shouldn't be enabled by default.
In theory it should be possible to support this on Windows as well using
VirtualLock(), but I'm not much of a Windows user.
* Update llama.cpp
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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* working but ugly
* add arg flag, not working on embedding mode
* typo
* Working! Thanks to @nullhook
* make params argument instead of hardcoded boolean. remove useless time check
* start doing the instructions but not finished. This probably doesnt compile
* Embeddings extraction support
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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* Major refactoring - introduce C-style API
* Clean up
* Add <cassert>
* Add <iterator>
* Add <algorithm> ....
* Fix timing reporting and accumulation
* Measure eval time only for single-token calls
* Change llama_tokenize return meaning
comex
Luciano
Georgi Gerganov
Yusuf Kağan Hanoğlu