Budgeting memory for a local language model: weights, KV cache, and room to run
An “8B, 4-bit” label gives you a starting estimate for weight storage. A useful memory budget also needs the conversation cache, the runtime's allocations, and the workload you intend to serve. Here is a calculation you can adapt before downloading weights or choosing a context length. The numbers…
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- 2026-10-18 00:01 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Budgeting memory for a local language model: weights, KV cache, and room to run