diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 4e317f9c9..2f38ac632 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ struct llama_context_params llama_context_params_from_gpt_params(const gpt_param
 
     cparams.n_ctx             = params.n_ctx;
     cparams.n_batch           = params.n_batch;
-    cparams.n_parallel        = params.n_parallel;
+    cparams.n_seq_max         = params.n_parallel;
     cparams.n_threads         = params.n_threads;
     cparams.n_threads_batch   = params.n_threads_batch == -1 ? params.n_threads : params.n_threads_batch;
     cparams.seed              = params.seed;