Concurrency: Parallel Requests and the Queue
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How Many Waiting Requests Are Tolerated
When all parallel slots are busy, additional requests queue. OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE sets the maximum queue length, defaulting to 512.
# When debugging:
# OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE=1000 ollama serve
# When using systemd, add it to the unit file:
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service.d/override.conf <<'EOF'
[Service]
Environment="OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE=1000"Local AI Engineering with Ollama
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