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Ollama Environment Configuration

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Core Environment Variables
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  • OLLAMA_MODELS - custom model directory, I generally move it away from the OS drive.
  • OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE - model memory retention.
  • OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL - Number of the same model loaded at the same time. This is quite nice to run say 6 llama 2B models at the same time.
  • OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS - different concurrent models, combine say a llama 2B + llama 7B.
  • OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION - enable