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[GH-ISSUE #7606] vram usage does not go back down after model unloads - stuck in Stopping... #30613
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Originally created by @CraftMaster163 on GitHub (Nov 11, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7606
Originally assigned to: @dhiltgen on GitHub.
What is the issue?
when i set keep alive to 0 the memory usage does not go all the way back down. also it uses system ram when vram still avalible
gpu 7800xt
platform windows
rocm version 6.1
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0.4.1
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 11, 2024):
server-3.log
app-4.log
@rick-github commented on GitHub (Nov 11, 2024):
What's the output of
ollama ps?@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
screenshot of before and after closing ollama
and output of ollama ps
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
here is when a model runs and stops
@rick-github commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
Looks like VRAM usage returns the level it was before the model was run. Other processes are using VRAM - browser, media player, GUI, etc.
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
no if i quit ollama it goes back down, that is ollama using it
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
i found a work around, for n8n(which is what im mainly using ollama for atm) just tell it to kill ollama and it forces it to dump the memory, but that should not be required
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
@CraftMaster163 can you check detailed processes to see if
ollama_llama_serveris still running when you see the memory leakage, or if only the mainollamaprocess is running? When the model goes idle, we should shut down theollama_llama_serverwhich should release GPU memory, however we do GPU discovery in the mainollamaprocess. That code should unload the GPU libraries when not actively querying to avoid additional VRAM usage.Looking at your driver version, this might be a dup of #7107
Does the behavior disappear if you downgrade the driver to 24.8.1?
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
yes i just checked and ollama_llama_server is still running, if i close it the vram goes down again
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
also ollama.exe does not get rid of its vram usage, if i stop it, it restarts fine and goes back down to my normal vram usage
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
@CraftMaster163 can you clarify if
ollama psshows nothing running whileollama_llama_serveris still running?@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
i assume /bye unloads model
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
That just closes the client, but the model will stay loaded until the timeout expires. By default this is 5m but you can override. Can you verify if the VRAM usage drops back down once
ollama psno longer shows a model loaded?https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-keep-a-model-loaded-in-memory-or-make-it-unload-immediately
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
hm now it closes, when i removed the commands from n8n, it does stop but ollama.exe does not clear its cache, here is a photo showing the graph going down after closing ollama
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
Can you clarify? When
ollama psshows no model loaded, doesollama_llama_serverstop and does the VRAM usage drop back down to the baseline you area expecting? If so, this doesn't sound like a bug.I'm not familiar with n8n, but if it calls the Ollama API and keeps the model loaded, that might explain what you are seeing.
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
no i told it to unload model, there is a spike, it unloads the context but does not fully unload model, here is a screenshot of the three spikes. normal usage



after ollama runs with keep alive 0
and after i quit ollama
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
if i let my discord bot using ollama run for a while it goes to full usage, its just llama3.2:3b which does not need that much memory
@CraftMaster163 commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2024):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x_CYMP45GIFcMIAYwTgio3_oYyrUsPNP/view?usp=sharing
here is a video of the issue
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2025):
Related issues #8178 #9617 #8969 #10119
@dhiltgen commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2025):
There seems to be a race somewhere in the scheduler under heavy load, possibly related to clients closing connections prematurely. If people are still seeing models get stuck in a "Stopping..." state in the
ollama psoutput and the model never actually unloads, please try running the server with OLLAMA_DEBUG=1 and share the logs including the model load, and eventual stuck state.@rick-github commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2025):
Not necessarily high load. If the model loses coherence, then it will remain in the "Stopping..." state until the token limit count is exceeded or the client disconnects. If the context buffer is large and the client doesn't have a timeout, this can take a while.
@Anaphylaxis commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
I'm experiencing an issue where loading multiple models (one after the other) seems to be persisting in the VRAM even after the model is completely stopped. Model after model will lower the GPU% and raise CPU%, and even with no models in
ollama psthe shared VRAM is maxed out on my GPU after multiple sessions. Quittingollama app.execompletely released all my VRAM, and on Ollama restart models are using 100% GPU again, so I'm 100% sure it's Ollama failing to reclaim the space, perhaps when a model is booted off for an embedding model. In the logs it does show that my available memory is less and less and less every time.@rick-github commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
Server logs and the output of
nivida-smiwill aid in debugging.@Anaphylaxis commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
I am using ROCm and Windows so there is no
nvidia-smifor me, that's why I referenced the shared VRAM usage in Task Manager.I didn't want to post hundreds of lines of logs if unnecessary, here they are.
ollamalog.txt
You can see we start out as
memory.available="[23.7 GiB]"and towards the end we'rememory.available="[12.7 GiB]"and 63 gpu layers that quickly starts dropping.time=2025-04-18T10:47:45.183-04:00 level=INFO source=sched.go:187 msg="one or more GPUs detected that are unable to accurately report free memory - disabling default concurrency"could be related but I assume this is talking about the virtual display driver I'm using to remote into this machine.@rick-github commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
This might be a different issue in that you don't have models stuck in a "Stopping..." state. It also seems to affect both the old llama.cpp runner and the new go runner. I suggest opening a new ticket so this one doesn't get mixed in with a similar but different problem.
@Anaphylaxis commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
Thanks, that's what I thought. I'm not sure whether to make a llama.cpp issue or an Ollama issue. I see some relevant issues but they're all closed.
@rick-github commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2025):
It seems to affect both runners so it might be a rocm issue.