diff --git a/examples/tiny-llama/qlora.yml b/examples/tiny-llama/qlora.yml
index 0d21aca9d..384f3315c 100644
--- a/examples/tiny-llama/qlora.yml
+++ b/examples/tiny-llama/qlora.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ lora_model_dir:
 
 sequence_len: 4096
 sample_packing: true
+eval_sample_packing: false
 pad_to_sequence_len: true
 
 lora_r: 32