[Llama.cpp] Unable to Run Large Context Window Models with OpenVINO Backend for Llama.cpp
Content Type: Troubleshooting | Article ID: 000103004 | Last Reviewed: 10/15/2026
Failed to run the model qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-q4_0.gguf with the following command and encountered a segmentation fault error:
llama-cli -m qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-q4_0.gguf --conversation
Loading model... /[1] 510827 segmentation fault (core dumped)
Use small context size to avoid failure from large model context window as shown in the below examples:
llama-cli -m qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-q4_0.gguf --conversation -c 512
llama-cli -m ~/models/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-Q4_0.gguf -c 512
For more information, check OpenVINO Backend for llama.cpp.