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?



Try either orinth 1.5 9b, or if it will fit orinth 1.5 35b a3b. I run 35 a3b on my 7gb rx7600. I use the iq4_xs quant. They are based on qwen3.6 but with some post training. Stuff to make the think and tool call better.