Error: Llama 3.1 8B - 500

[cognitudetechnologies-lang]

Error Details

Model: Llama 3.1 8B
Provider: ollama
Status Code: 500

Error Output

"model requires more system memory (5.3 GiB) than is available (5.3 GiB)"

Additional Context
Please add any additional context about the error here

[sestinj]

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[RomneyDa]

@cognitudetechnologies-lang try setting a smaller contextLength in your model's configuration and see if that helps

[RomneyDa]

Hello, this is not a Continue error, you will need to use a system with more memory to host this model.
Note that you can sometimes reduce context length in your model config to reduce this issue, Continue might have a higher default context limit than other tools.
https://docs.continue.dev/reference