diff --git a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
index 19aff18ae..dff6c68ec 100644
--- a/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
+++ b/examples/batched-bench/batched-bench.cpp
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     ctx_params.n_threads       = params.n_threads;
     ctx_params.n_threads_batch = params.n_threads_batch == -1 ? params.n_threads : params.n_threads_batch;
 
+    // ensure enough sequences are available
+    ctx_params.n_parallel = *std::max_element(n_pl.begin(), n_pl.end());
+
     llama_context * ctx = llama_new_context_with_model(model, ctx_params);
 
     if (ctx == NULL) {
@@ -174,10 +177,10 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
                 llama_batch_clear(batch);
 
-                const int n_tokens = is_pp_shared ? pp : pl*pp;
-
-                for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; ++i) {
-                    llama_batch_add(batch, 0, i, { 0 }, false);
+                for (int i = 0; i < pp; ++i) {
+                    for (int j = 0; j < (is_pp_shared ? 1 : pl); ++j) {
+                        llama_batch_add(batch, 0, i, { j }, false);
+                    }
                 }
                 batch.logits[batch.n_tokens - 1] = true;
 
@@ -192,7 +195,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
                 if (is_pp_shared) {
                     for (int32_t i = 1; i < pl; ++i) {
-                        llama_kv_cache_seq_cp(ctx, 0, i, 0, pp);
+                        llama_kv_cache_seq_cp(ctx, 0, i, -1, -1);
                     }
                 }
 
diff --git a/examples/batched/batched.cpp b/examples/batched/batched.cpp
index 9be7eb56b..dde4d5a06 100644
--- a/examples/batched/batched.cpp
+++ b/examples/batched/batched.cpp
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     ctx_params.seed  = 1234;
     ctx_params.n_ctx = n_kv_req;
     ctx_params.n_batch = std::max(n_len, n_parallel);
+    ctx_params.n_parallel      = n_parallel;
     ctx_params.n_threads       = params.n_threads;
     ctx_params.n_threads_batch = params.n_threads_batch == -1 ? params.n_threads : params.n_threads_batch;
 
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     // assign the system KV cache to all parallel sequences
     // this way, the parallel sequences will "reuse" the prompt tokens without having to copy them
     for (int32_t i = 1; i < n_parallel; ++i) {
-        llama_kv_cache_seq_cp(ctx, 0, i, 0, batch.n_tokens);
+        llama_kv_cache_seq_cp(ctx, 0, i, -1, -1);
     }
 
     if (n_parallel > 1) {
diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index 9ec989389..52789ee63 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void hellaswag_score(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params) {
     const int n_batch = params.n_batch;
 
     const int max_tasks_per_batch = 32;
-    const int max_seq = 4*max_tasks_per_batch;
+    const int max_seq = std::min(4*max_tasks_per_batch, (int) llama_n_max_seq(ctx));
 
     llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_ctx, 0, max_seq);
 
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ static void winogrande_score(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params) {
     const int n_batch = params.n_batch;
 
     const int max_tasks_per_batch = 128;
-    const int max_seq = 2*max_tasks_per_batch;
+    const int max_seq = std::min(2*max_tasks_per_batch, (int) llama_n_max_seq(ctx));
 
     llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_ctx, 0, max_seq);
 
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ static void multiple_choice_score(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & params
     const int n_batch = params.n_batch;
 
     const int max_tasks_per_batch = 32;
-    const int max_seq = 4*max_tasks_per_batch;
+    const int max_seq = std::min(4*max_tasks_per_batch, (int) llama_n_max_seq(ctx));
 
     llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init(n_ctx, 0, max_seq);
 
@@ -1815,6 +1815,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     llama_model * model;
     llama_context * ctx;
 
+    // ensure there's at least enough seq_ids for HellaSwag
+    params.n_parallel = std::max(4, params.n_parallel);
+
     // load the model and apply lora adapter, if any
     std::tie(model, ctx) = llama_init_from_gpt_params(params);
     if (model == NULL) {
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index b3964810c..f437059b2 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -12844,6 +12844,10 @@ uint32_t llama_n_batch(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
     return ctx->cparams.n_batch;
 }
 
+uint32_t llama_n_max_seq(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
+    return ctx->kv_self.size;
+}
+
 enum llama_vocab_type llama_vocab_type(const struct llama_model * model) {
     return model->vocab.type;
 }
diff --git a/llama.h b/llama.h
index a4675d4c3..f0aca1fe5 100644
--- a/llama.h
+++ b/llama.h
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ extern "C" {
 
     LLAMA_API uint32_t llama_n_ctx      (const struct llama_context * ctx);
     LLAMA_API uint32_t llama_n_batch    (const struct llama_context * ctx);
+    LLAMA_API uint32_t llama_n_max_seq  (const struct llama_context * ctx);
 
     LLAMA_API enum llama_vocab_type llama_vocab_type(const struct llama_model * model);
     LLAMA_API enum llama_rope_type  llama_rope_type (const struct llama_model * model);