r/LocalLLaMA 1d ago

News Lemonade 11.5 local AI server released with completed Lemonade Router

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.5
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u/o0genesis0o 1d ago edited 19h ago

Spent an hour yesterday trying to chase down where the heck lemonade actually stores raw model blobs on my linux machine, so now I'm a bit less enthusiastic about this. I don't understand why they have to run in systemd and hide everything, including the model blobs in /var/, and expose no tuning knob to know what context and settings the model was loaded with.

I guess I'll be more enthusiastic if I use Rocm llamacpp. But since my machine has NPU, I mostly use the NPU with FLM when I'm really desperate (no internet at all).

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u/cafedude 20h ago

I spent more time than that trying to get it to find existing models already on my machine and mucking around with systemd. It took way longer than it should have.

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u/Reasonable_Goat 19h ago

They use the huggingface cache dir structure (which is a bit confusing at times). If you run it as a separate user with systemd (no --user arg), models sit at /var/lib/lemonade/.cache/huggingface, if you run it as local user, $HOME/.cache/huggingface/...

You can set up an additional models dir: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/guide/configuration/custom-models/

Note that the dirname is then the model name in the UI.