Running OmniCoder-9B locally with llama.cpp configuration details

Hardware and Model Setup
The setup uses mid-range hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU (12 threads used for inference), 62GB DDR4 RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3080 with 10GB VRAM, NVMe SSD, and Ubuntu 22.04 on a remote server.
The model is OmniCoder-9B, based on Qwen3.5-9B, fine-tuned on 425k+ coding agent trajectories by Tesslate. It uses Q6_K quantization (6.85GB file size) with 128K token context window, sourced from HuggingFace.
llama.cpp Configuration
The model runs via llama.cpp server with these specific flags:
llama-server \ --model /home/openclaw/models/omnicoder-9b/omnicoder-9b-q6_k.gguf \ --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 \ --ctx-size 131072 \ --n-gpu-layers 99 \ --cache-type-k q8_0 \ --cache-type-v q4_0 \ --threads 12 \ --batch-size 128 \ --flash-attn on \ --temp 0.4 \ --top-k 20 \ --top-p 0.95 \ --jinja \ --reasoning-budget 0
Key parameters explained:
--ctx-size 131072: 128K context window for large codebases--n-gpu-layers 99: Offload all layers to GPU--cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q4_0: Compressed KV cache to fit 128K context in 10GB VRAM--threads 12: Match physical cores (not hyperthreads)--flash-attn on: Faster attention computation--reasoning-budget 0: Disables chain-of-thought output in the reasoning_content field, making the model output code directly
Performance and Testing
Performance metrics: prompt evaluation at ~300 tokens/s, generation at ~80-90 tokens/s, VRAM usage ~8.5GB/10GB, latency 1-5 seconds for typical coding tasks.
The testing was conducted by Agent Zero, an autonomous agent framework using GLM-5 as its main brain. Agent Zero discovered the --reasoning-budget 0 flag, SSH'd into the remote server, updated the systemd service, created benchmark scripts from scratch, ran multiple benchmarks (HumanEval base, HumanEval Pro, MBPP, MultiPL-E), and iterated on prompt engineering.
Benchmark Results
Benchmark results compared to official claims:
- HumanEval base: Official 92.7%, Run 1: 100%, Run 2: 95%, Run 3: 95%, Average: 96.7%
- HumanEval Pro: Official 70.1%, Run 1: 70%, Average: 70%
The average HumanEval base score of 96.7% exceeds the official 92.7%, while HumanEval Pro matches exactly at 70%.
📖 Read the full source: r/LocalLLaMA
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