Below are the generic details and resources of the machine I used:
- Operating System: Linux Mint 22.3 - MATE 64-bit (safe-graphics / boot with 'nomodeset') - Linux Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic
- GPU: not relevant / not used
- CPU: 2 cores – Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz × 2
- RAM: 8 GB (DDR2)
Given my recent personal good experience in running inference with CPU-only (no GPU) on local models up to 2B-4B parameters with more than acceptable speed and performance on really limited hardware and very little RAM, I decided to share the instructions and commands I used to compile llama.cpp on my machine and the arguments I currently use to launch llama.
