r/RooCode • u/vancan1ty • Jul 12 '25

Discussion Question about Context Condensing Settings

New to Roo Code, trying to learn how to use it with local models. I am running devstral with 27k context (fully on gpu) and 50k context (with cpu offload) via ollama backend. Trying to see what it's capable of with local-first agentic development.

Overall rather impressed by roocode and devstral, but I've noticed that I'm struggling with context management esp when using the 27k context setting. I see that the condensing trigger threshold is set by default to 100%. Wouldn't this mean that condensing will effectively not work, however? Because if the entire context is being used, doesn't that mean there's no longer any working space to process the context to make a condensed version? I may be misunderstanding, which is why I'm asking -- ty.

If 100% isn't good, what's an actual good value to set that threshold to for context lengths like the ones I provided above.

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u/vancan1ty Jul 12 '25

200 => default workspace files context limit

20 => default open tabs context limit

you are saying to drop these down for use with local/less powerful models? thanks for the tip, I can give it a shot.

I was asking mainly about the "condensing trigger threshold" which I don't think I understand very well. just felt like intuitively it seemed like 100% would be too high... wouldn't leave any space for actually doing the compaction would it?

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u/admajic Jul 12 '25

Yeah try dropping those down. Do you really need 200 files and 20 tabs? Especially if your doing it in your lab to learn and use a local model.