diff --git a/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp b/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
index 23fda9d58..a8b6f629d 100644
--- a/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
+++ b/examples/parallel/parallel.cpp
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         return 1;
     }
 
-    const int n_clients = 16;
+    const int n_clients = 4;
 
 #ifndef LOG_DISABLE_LOGS
     log_set_target(log_filename_generator("parallel", "log"));
@@ -116,10 +116,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     std::vector<llama_token_data> candidates;
     candidates.reserve(n_vocab);
 
-    auto t_main_start = ggml_time_us();
-
-    int64_t n_tokens_total = 0;
-
     llama_seq_id g_seq_id = 0;
 
     std::vector<llama_token>  batch_token;
@@ -203,6 +199,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                     continue;
                 }
 
+                //printf("client %d, seq %d, token %d, pos %d, batch %d\n",
+                //        client.id, client.seq_id, client.sampled, client.n_decoded, client.i_batch);
+
                 const llama_token id = llama_sample_token(ctx, NULL, NULL, params, client.last_tokens, candidates, client.i_batch - i);
 
                 if (client.t_start_gen == 0) {
@@ -233,9 +232,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
                     const auto t_main_end = ggml_time_us();
 
-                    n_tokens_total += client.n_decoded - client.n_prompt;
-
-                    printf("\033[1mClient %2d, seq %4d, prompt %4d t, response %4d t, speed: PP %5.2f t/s, TG %5.2f, AVG %5.2f \033[0m: \n\nInput:    %s\nResponse: %s\n\n",
+                    printf("\033[1mClient %2d, seq %4d, prompt %4d t, response %4d t, speed: PP %5.2f t/s, TG %5.2f t/s, AVG %5.2f t/s \033[0m: \n\nInput:    %s\nResponse: %s\n\n",
                             client.id, client.seq_id, client.n_prompt, client.n_decoded - client.n_prompt,
                             (double) (client.n_prompt                   ) / (client.t_start_gen - client.t_start_prompt) * 1e6,
                             (double) (client.n_decoded - client.n_prompt) / (t_main_end         - client.t_start_gen)    * 1e6,
@@ -249,13 +246,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 client.i_batch = -1;
             }
         }
-
-        static bool is_first = true;
-        if (is_first) {
-            t_main_start = ggml_time_us();
-            n_tokens_total = 0;
-            is_first = false;
-        }
     }
 
     LOG_TEE("\n\n");
diff --git a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
index 526d98e66..ea628211b 100644
--- a/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
+++ b/examples/speculative/speculative.cpp
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 LOG("out of drafted tokens\n");
             }
 
+            llama_kv_cache_rm_seq(ctx_dft, 0, n_past_dft, n_ctx);
             llama_decode(ctx_dft, llama_batch_get_one(&id, 1, n_past_dft, 0), params.n_threads);
             ++n_past_dft;
 
@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             }
 
             // evaluate the drafted token on the draft model
+            llama_kv_cache_rm_seq(ctx_dft, 0, n_past_cur, n_ctx);
             llama_decode(ctx_dft, llama_batch_get_one(&drafted.back(), 1, n_past_cur, 0), params.n_threads);
             ++n_past_cur;
 
@@ -265,6 +267,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         }
 
         // evaluate the target model on the drafted tokens
+        llama_kv_cache_rm_seq(ctx_tgt, 0, n_past_tgt, n_ctx);
         llama_decode(ctx_tgt, llama_batch_get_one(drafted.data(), drafted.size(), n_past_tgt, 0), params.n_threads);
         ++n_past_tgt;
 
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index f56ecc272..3a4a2b6ac 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -2604,7 +2604,7 @@ static struct ggml_cgraph * llm_build_llama(
     const int n_gpu_layers = model.n_gpu_layers;
 
     const int32_t n_tokens = batch.n_tokens;
-    const int32_t n_kv     = llama_kv_cache_cell_max(kv_self);
+    const int32_t n_kv     = ggml_allocr_is_measure(lctx.alloc) ? n_ctx - n_tokens : llama_kv_cache_cell_max(kv_self);
 
     //printf("n_kv = %d\n", n_kv);
 
@@ -2775,7 +2775,7 @@ static struct ggml_cgraph * llm_build_llama(
             offload_func_kq(Kcur);
             ggml_set_name(Kcur, "Kcur");
 
-            struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_rope_custom(ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, tmpq, n_embd_head, n_head, n_tokens),    KQ_pos, n_embd_head, 0, 0, freq_base, freq_scale);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_rope_custom(ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, tmpq, n_embd_head, n_head,    n_tokens), KQ_pos, n_embd_head, 0, 0, freq_base, freq_scale);
             offload_func_kq(Qcur);
             ggml_set_name(Qcur, "Qcur");
 
@@ -6677,9 +6677,9 @@ struct llama_context * llama_new_context_with_model(
             ctx->alloc = ggml_allocr_new_measure(tensor_alignment);
 
             // build worst-case graph
-            uint32_t n_tokens = std::max((int)hparams.n_ctx, params.n_batch);
+            const uint32_t n_tokens = std::min((int) hparams.n_ctx, params.n_batch);
             llama_token token = llama_token_bos(ctx); // not actually used by llama_build_graph, but required to choose between token and embedding inputs graph
-            ggml_cgraph * gf = llama_build_graph(*ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&token, n_tokens, 0, 0));
+            ggml_cgraph * gf = llama_build_graph(*ctx, llama_batch_get_one(&token, n_tokens, hparams.n_ctx - n_tokens, 0));
 
 #ifdef GGML_USE_METAL
             if (params.n_gpu_layers > 0) {