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How Ollama Handles Parallel Requests

How Ollama Handles Parallel Requests

Understand Ollama concurrency, queueing, and how to tune OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL for stable parallel requests.

This guide explains how Ollama handles parallel requests (concurrency, queuing, and resource limits), and how to tune it using the OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL environment variable (and related knobs).