--- title: Scaling Small LLMs with NVIDIA MPS | daily.dev description: NVIDIA's Multi-Process Service (MPS) can significantly improve GPU throughput for small language models by allowing multiple inference processes to share GPU... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-small-llms-with-nvidia-mps-0ynja1gh5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Scaling Small LLMs with NVIDIA MPS | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA's Multi-Process Service (MPS) can significantly improve GPU throughput for small language models by allowing multiple inference processes to share GPU... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-small-llms-with-nvidia-mps-0ynja1gh5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0yNJa1gH5.png og:image:alt: Scaling Small LLMs with NVIDIA MPS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scaling Small LLMs with NVIDIA MPS **[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA's Multi-Process Service (MPS) can significantly improve GPU throughput for small language models by allowing multiple inference processes to share GPU resources and overlap operations. Rigorous testing shows MPS delivers 50-100%+ throughput gains for models ≤3B parameters with short contexts (<2k tokens) and prefill-heavy workloads, primarily by enabling kernel overlap during attention operations when individual engines underutilize compute or memory bandwidth. The benefits diminish rapidly for larger models (7B+) or longer contexts (>8k tokens) where GPUs are already saturated. MPS also helps recover GPU time lost to CPU bottlenecks like scheduler overhead. However, it introduces operational complexity including daemon management, debugging challenges, and fragile failure modes where one misbehaving process can affect all co-located engines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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