From 10d599f26a9b844d8982570838454f1c07a7e017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Cole <64215+codefromthecrypt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:32:53 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ollama: suggest higher minimum context length

This updates the doc with the new ENV variable ollama supports since [v0.5.13](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.5.13)
---
 aider/website/docs/llms/ollama.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/website/docs/llms/ollama.md b/aider/website/docs/llms/ollama.md
index 014baa175..463dc4a3e 100644
--- a/aider/website/docs/llms/ollama.md
+++ b/aider/website/docs/llms/ollama.md
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Aider can connect to local Ollama models.
 # Pull the model
 ollama pull <model>
 
-# Start your ollama server
-ollama serve
+# Start your ollama server, increasing the context window to 8k tokens
+OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 ollama serve
 
 # In another terminal window...
 python -m pip install -U aider-chat