I felt sorry for it and stopped it, 14min and the poor thing was just going around in circles.
I’m just looking at running some local llm on my m2 16GB mac and this was with the default settings for the qwen3.5 9b in LM Studio. Any pointers to get the best out of a M2?



What quant are you running? You might get better mileage from a gemma4 model of similar size and quants.
I had been using a gemma4 model, E4B and E2B. The E4B seems to work well
Yeah… E4B is definitely better than A2B.