OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE not working with continue extension

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• [X] I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• [X] I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• [X] I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS:Window on arm
- Continue version:v0.8.57
- IDE version:VSCode 1.95.3
- Model:qwen2.5-coder
- config.json:

{
  "models": [
    {
      "model": "claude-3-5-sonnet-latest",
      "provider": "anthropic",
      "apiKey": "",
      "title": "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"
    },
    {
      "model": "AUTODETECT",
      "title": "Autodetect",
      "provider": "ollama"
    }
  ],
  "tabAutocompleteModel": {
    "title": "Codestral",
    "provider": "mistral",
    "model": "codestral-latest",
    "apiKey": ""
  },
  "customCommands": [
    {
      "name": "test",
      "prompt": "{{{ input }}}\n\nWrite a comprehensive set of unit tests for the selected code. It should setup, run tests that check for correctness including important edge cases, and teardown. Ensure that the tests are complete and sophisticated. Give the tests just as chat output, don't edit any file.",
      "description": "Write unit tests for highlighted code"
    }
  ],
  "contextProviders": [
    {
      "name": "code",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "docs",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "diff",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "terminal",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "problems",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "folder",
      "params": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "codebase",
      "params": {}
    }
  ],
  "slashCommands": [
    {
      "name": "share",
      "description": "Export the current chat session to markdown"
    },
    {
      "name": "cmd",
      "description": "Generate a shell command"
    },
    {
      "name": "commit",
      "description": "Generate a git commit message"
    }
  ]
}

Description

OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE not working with continue extension. See https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/5272#issuecomment-2489940273 and following comment.

To reproduce

Start ollama serve with OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=-1 environment variable. Chat inside Conitnue Extension. Ollama release model memory after a while instead of keeping it in memory.

Log output

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