// ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/25937 // only works reliably when run with a large model that occupies 3GB+ of wired memory // thus, this test is not run by default // example model to run with: google/gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf #include "llama.h" #include "common.h" #include #include #include #include static uint64_t wired_memory() { vm_statistics64_data_t vmstat; mach_msg_type_number_t count = HOST_VM_INFO64_COUNT; if (host_statistics64(mach_host_self(), HOST_VM_INFO64, (host_info64_t)&vmstat, &count) != KERN_SUCCESS) { return UINT64_MAX; } return static_cast(vmstat.wire_count) * vm_kernel_page_size; } int main(int argc, char ** argv) { auto * model_path = common_get_model_or_exit(argc, argv); llama_backend_init(); const uint64_t wired_initial = wired_memory(); llama_model_params params = llama_model_default_params(); params.load_mode = LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_NONE; struct llama_model* model = llama_model_load_from_file(model_path, params); const uint64_t wired_loaded = wired_memory(); const uint64_t wired_delta = wired_loaded - wired_initial; // system memory fluctuates, so we need to allocate enough to reliably detect the release GGML_ASSERT(wired_delta > 2'000'000'000); // 2GB llama_model_free(model); const uint64_t t_start_ms = ggml_time_ms(); // expect most of the allocated memory to be released within 10 seconds // we allow for some tolerance due to system-wide memory fluctuations while (wired_memory() > wired_loaded - 0.75 * wired_delta) { GGML_ASSERT(ggml_time_ms() - t_start_ms < 10'000); usleep(100'000); // 100ms } llama_backend_free(); return 0; }