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How to test the real maximum context length on Apple Silicon?

I have a MacBook Pro M4 Max with 36 GB RAM, running LM Studio with Qwen3.8-27B-Splash. LM Studio shows a loaded context of 100K tokens, but conversation token usage is unavailable, and its memory estimator returns 0 bytes. I want to find out: 1. How many tokens my Mac can actually process reliably.…

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  1. 2026-10-15 10:50 · r/LocalLLM
    How to test the real maximum context length on Apple Silicon?

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