diff --git a/tools/server/server.cpp b/tools/server/server.cpp
index de8ded71f..7169ffdce 100644
--- a/tools/server/server.cpp
+++ b/tools/server/server.cpp
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ struct server_context {
 
     llama_context_params cparams_dft;
 
-    llama_batch batch;
+    llama_batch batch {};
 
     bool clean_kv_cache = true;
     bool add_bos_token  = true;