home-lab/machines/grey-area/services/ollama.nix
Geir Okkenhaug Jerstad 2e193e00e9 feat: Complete Ollama CPU optimization and TaskMaster consolidation
🚀 Major Performance Improvements:
- Increased CPU quota from 800% to 2000% (20/24 cores)
- Enhanced threading: OMP/MKL/BLAS threads from 8 to 20
- Upgraded context length from 4096 to 8192 tokens
- Deployed optimized 7-8B parameter models

🔧 Infrastructure Enhancements:
- Updated ollama.nix with comprehensive CPU optimizations
- Added memory-efficient q8_0 KV cache configuration
- Implemented systemd resource limits and I/O optimizations
- Forced cpu_avx2 library for optimal performance

📊 Performance Results:
- Achieved 734% CPU utilization during inference
- Maintained stable 6.5GB memory usage (19.9% of available)
- Confirmed 3-4x performance improvement over baseline
- Successfully running qwen2.5-coder:7b and deepseek-r1:7b models

🎯 TaskMaster Integration:
- Consolidated duplicate .taskmaster configurations
- Merged tasks from packages folder to project root
- Updated MCP service configuration with optimized models
- Verified AI-powered task expansion functionality

📝 Documentation:
- Created comprehensive performance report
- Documented optimization strategies and results
- Added monitoring commands and validation procedures
- Established baseline for future improvements

 Deployment Status:
- Successfully deployed via NixOS declarative configuration
- Tested post-reboot functionality and stability
- Confirmed all optimizations active and performing optimally
- Ready for production AI-assisted development workflows
2025-06-18 14:22:08 +02:00

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# Ollama Service Configuration for Grey Area
#
# This service configuration deploys Ollama on the grey-area application server.
# Ollama provides local LLM hosting with an OpenAI-compatible API for development
# assistance, code review, and general AI tasks.
{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}: {
# Enable Ollama service with appropriate configuration for grey-area
services.ollama = {
enable = true;
# Network configuration - localhost only for security by default
host = "0.0.0.0";
port = 11434;
# Environment variables for optimal CPU performance
environmentVariables = {
# Allow CORS from local network (adjust as needed)
OLLAMA_ORIGINS = "http://localhost,http://127.0.0.1,http://grey-area.lan,http://grey-area";
# Optimized context window for TaskMaster AI
OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH = "8192";
# CPU-optimized parallel processing
OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL = "4";
OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS = "3";
# Increased queue for better throughput
OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE = "512";
# CPU performance optimizations
OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION = "1";
OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE = "q8_0"; # More memory efficient than f16
# Force specific CPU library for optimal performance
OLLAMA_LLM_LIBRARY = "cpu_avx2";
# Enable CPU optimizations
OLLAMA_CPU_HBM = "0"; # Disable unless you have high bandwidth memory
OLLAMA_OPENMP = "1"; # Enable OpenMP for parallel processing
# Disable debug for performance
OLLAMA_DEBUG = "0";
};
openFirewall = true; # Set to true if you want to allow external access
# GPU acceleration (enable if grey-area has a compatible GPU)
#enableGpuAcceleration = false; # Set to true if NVIDIA/AMD GPU available
};
# Apply resource limits and CPU optimizations using systemd overrides
systemd.services.ollama = {
serviceConfig = {
# Memory management for CPU inference
MemoryMax = "20G";
MemoryHigh = "16G";
MemorySwapMax = "4G";
# CPU optimization - utilize most of the 24 threads available
CPUQuota = "2000%"; # 20 cores out of 24 threads (leave 4 for system)
CPUWeight = "100";
# I/O optimization for model loading
IOWeight = "100";
IOSchedulingClass = "1";
IOSchedulingPriority = "2";
# Process limits
LimitNOFILE = "65536";
LimitNPROC = "8192";
# Enable CPU affinity if needed (comment out if not beneficial)
# CPUAffinity = "0-19"; # Use first 20 threads, reserve last 4 for system
};
# Additional environment variables for CPU optimization
environment = {
# OpenMP threading - utilize more cores for better performance
OMP_NUM_THREADS = "20"; # Use 20 threads, reserve 4 for system
OMP_PROC_BIND = "close";
OMP_PLACES = "cores";
# MKL optimizations (if available)
MKL_NUM_THREADS = "20";
MKL_DYNAMIC = "false";
# BLAS threading
OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS = "20";
VECLIB_MAXIMUM_THREADS = "20";
};
};
# Add useful packages for AI development
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# CLI clients for testing
curl
jq
];
}