I'm trying to fine-tune a Vgg16 model using colaboratory but I ran into this error when training with the GPU.
OOM when allocating tensor of shape [7,7,512,4096]
INFO:tensorflow:Error reported to Coordinator: <class 'tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.ResourceExhaustedError'>, OOM when allocating tensor of shape [7,7,512,4096] and type float
[[Node: vgg_16/fc6/weights/Momentum/Initializer/zeros = Const[_class=["loc:#vgg_16/fc6/weights"], dtype=DT_FLOAT, value=Tensor<type: float shape: [7,7,512,4096] values: [[[0 0 0]]]...>, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0"]()]]
Caused by op 'vgg_16/fc6/weights/Momentum/Initializer/zeros', defined at:
also have this output for my vm session:
--- colab vm info ---
python v=3.6.3
tensorflow v=1.4.1
tf device=/device:GPU:0
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU # 2.20GHz
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU # 2.20GHz
MemTotal: 13341960 kB
MemFree: 1541740 kB
MemAvailable: 10035212 kB
My tfrecord is just 118 256x256 JPGs with file size <2MB
Is there a workaround? it works when I use the CPU, just not the GPU
Seeing a small amount of free GPU memory almost always indicates that you've created a TensorFlow session without the allow_growth = True option. See:
https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/using_gpu#allowing_gpu_memory_growth
If you don't set this option, by default, TensorFlow will reserve nearly all GPU memory when a session is created.
Good news: As of this week, Colab now sets this option by default, so you should see much lower growth as you use multiple notebooks on Colab. And, you can also inspect GPU memory usage per notebook by selecting 'Manage session's from the runtime menu.
Once selected, you'll see a dialog that lists all notebooks and the GPU memory each is consuming. To free memory, you can terminate runtimes from this dialog as well.
I met the same issue, and I found my problem was caused by the code below:
from tensorflow.python.framework.test_util import is_gpu_available as tf
if tf()==True:
device='/gpu:0'
else:
device='/cpu:0'
I used below Code to check the GPU memory usage status and find the usage is 0% before running the code above, and it became 95% after.
# memory footprint support libraries/code
!ln -sf /opt/bin/nvidia-smi /usr/bin/nvidia-smi
!pip install gputil
!pip install psutil
!pip install humanize
import psutil
import humanize
import os
import GPUtil as GPU
GPUs = GPU.getGPUs()
# XXX: only one GPU on Colab and isn't guaranteed
gpu = GPUs[0]
def printm():
process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
print("Gen RAM Free: " + humanize.naturalsize( psutil.virtual_memory().available ), " I Proc size: " + humanize.naturalsize( process.memory_info().rss))
print('GPU RAM Free: {0:.0f}MB | Used: {1:.0f}MB | Util {2:3.0f}% | Total {3:.0f}MB'.format(gpu.memoryFree, gpu.memoryUsed, gpu.memoryUtil*100, gpu.memoryTotal))
printm()
Before:
Gen RAM Free: 12.7 GB I Proc size: 139.1 MB
GPU RAM Free: 11438MB | Used: 1MB | Util 0% | Total 11439MB
After:
Gen RAM Free: 12.0 GB I Proc size: 1.0 GB
GPU RAM Free: 564MB | Used: 10875MB | Util 95% | Total 11439MB
Somehow, is_gpu_available() managed consume most of the GPU memory without release them after, so instead, I used below code to detect the gpu status for me, problem solved
!ln -sf /opt/bin/nvidia-smi /usr/bin/nvidia-smi
!pip install gputil
try:
import GPUtil as GPU
GPUs = GPU.getGPUs()
device='/gpu:0'
except:
device='/cpu:0'
I failed to repro the originally-reported error, but if that is caused by running out of GPU memory (as opposed to main memory) this might help:
# See https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/using_gpu#allowing_gpu_memory_growth
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
and then pass session_config=config to e.g. slim.learning.train() (or whatever session ctor you end up using).
In my case I didn't solve with solution provided by Ami, even if it's excellent, probably because Colaboratory VM couldn't furnish more resources.
I had the OOM error in detection phase (not model training). I solved with a workaround, disabling GPU for detection:
config = tf.ConfigProto(device_count = {'GPU': 0})
sess = tf.Session(config=config)
Related
I work in an environment in which computational resources are shared, i.e., we have a few server machines equipped with a few Nvidia Titan X GPUs each.
For small to moderate size models, the 12 GB of the Titan X is usually enough for 2–3 people to run training concurrently on the same GPU. If the models are small enough that a single model does not take full advantage of all the computational units of the GPU, this can actually result in a speedup compared with running one training process after the other. Even in cases where the concurrent access to the GPU does slow down the individual training time, it is still nice to have the flexibility of having multiple users simultaneously train on the GPU.
The problem with TensorFlow is that, by default, it allocates the full amount of available GPU memory when it is launched. Even for a small two-layer neural network, I see that all 12 GB of the GPU memory is used up.
Is there a way to make TensorFlow only allocate, say, 4 GB of GPU memory, if one knows that this is enough for a given model?
You can set the fraction of GPU memory to be allocated when you construct a tf.Session by passing a tf.GPUOptions as part of the optional config argument:
# Assume that you have 12GB of GPU memory and want to allocate ~4GB:
gpu_options = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
sess = tf.Session(config=tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=gpu_options))
The per_process_gpu_memory_fraction acts as a hard upper bound on the amount of GPU memory that will be used by the process on each GPU on the same machine. Currently, this fraction is applied uniformly to all of the GPUs on the same machine; there is no way to set this on a per-GPU basis.
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth=True
sess = tf.Session(config=config)
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1578
For TensorFlow 2.0 and 2.1 (docs):
import tensorflow as tf
tf.config.gpu.set_per_process_memory_growth(True)
For TensorFlow 2.2+ (docs):
import tensorflow as tf
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
for gpu in gpus:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True)
The docs also list some more methods:
Set environment variable TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH to true.
Use tf.config.experimental.set_virtual_device_configuration to set a hard limit on a Virtual GPU device.
Here is an excerpt from the Book Deep Learning with TensorFlow
In some cases it is desirable for the process to only allocate a subset of the available memory, or to only grow the memory usage as it is needed by the process. TensorFlow provides two configuration options on the session to control this. The first is the allow_growth option, which attempts to allocate only as much GPU memory based on runtime allocations, it starts out allocating very little memory, and as sessions get run and more GPU memory is needed, we extend the GPU memory region needed by the TensorFlow process.
1) Allow growth: (more flexible)
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.Session(config=config, ...)
The second method is per_process_gpu_memory_fraction option, which determines the fraction of the overall amount of memory that each visible GPU should be allocated. Note: No release of memory needed, it can even worsen memory fragmentation when done.
2) Allocate fixed memory:
To only allocate 40% of the total memory of each GPU by:
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = 0.4
session = tf.Session(config=config, ...)
Note:
That's only useful though if you truly want to bind the amount of GPU memory available on the TensorFlow process.
For Tensorflow version 2.0 and 2.1 use the following snippet:
import tensorflow as tf
gpu_devices = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu_devices[0], True)
For prior versions , following snippet used to work for me:
import tensorflow as tf
tf_config=tf.ConfigProto()
tf_config.gpu_options.allow_growth=True
sess = tf.Session(config=tf_config)
All the answers above assume execution with a sess.run() call, which is becoming the exception rather than the rule in recent versions of TensorFlow.
When using the tf.Estimator framework (TensorFlow 1.4 and above) the way to pass the fraction along to the implicitly created MonitoredTrainingSession is,
opts = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
conf = tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=opts)
trainingConfig = tf.estimator.RunConfig(session_config=conf, ...)
tf.estimator.Estimator(model_fn=...,
config=trainingConfig)
Similarly in Eager mode (TensorFlow 1.5 and above),
opts = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
conf = tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=opts)
tfe.enable_eager_execution(config=conf)
Edit: 11-04-2018
As an example, if you are to use tf.contrib.gan.train, then you can use something similar to bellow:
tf.contrib.gan.gan_train(........, config=conf)
You can use
TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH=true
in your environment variables.
In tensorflow code:
bool GPUBFCAllocator::GetAllowGrowthValue(const GPUOptions& gpu_options) {
const char* force_allow_growth_string =
std::getenv("TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH");
if (force_allow_growth_string == nullptr) {
return gpu_options.allow_growth();
}
Tensorflow 2.0 Beta and (probably) beyond
The API changed again. It can be now found in:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(
device,
enable
)
Aliases:
tf.compat.v1.config.experimental.set_memory_growth
tf.compat.v2.config.experimental.set_memory_growth
References:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf/config/experimental/set_memory_growth
https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu#limiting_gpu_memory_growth
See also:
Tensorflow - Use a GPU: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu
for Tensorflow 2.0 Alpha see: this answer
All the answers above refer to either setting the memory to a certain extent in TensorFlow 1.X versions or to allow memory growth in TensorFlow 2.X.
The method tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth indeed works for allowing dynamic growth during the allocation/preprocessing. Nevertheless one may like to allocate from the start a specific-upper limit GPU memory.
The logic behind allocating a specific GPU memory would also be to prevent OOM memory during training sessions. For example, if one trains while opening video-memory consuming Chrome tabs/any other video consumption process, the tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True) could result in OOM errors thrown, hence the necessity of allocating from the start more memory in certain cases.
The recommended and correct way in which to allot memory per GPU in TensorFlow 2.X is done in the following manner:
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
# Restrict TensorFlow to only allocate 1GB of memory on the first GPU
try:
tf.config.experimental.set_virtual_device_configuration(
gpus[0],
[tf.config.experimental.VirtualDeviceConfiguration(memory_limit=1024)]
Shameless plug: If you install the GPU supported Tensorflow, the session will first allocate all GPUs whether you set it to use only CPU or GPU. I may add my tip that even you set the graph to use CPU only you should set the same configuration(as answered above:) ) to prevent the unwanted GPU occupation.
And in an interactive interface like IPython and Jupyter, you should also set that configure, otherwise, it will allocate all memory and leave almost none for others. This is sometimes hard to notice.
If you're using Tensorflow 2 try the following:
config = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.compat.v1.Session(config=config)
For Tensorflow 2.0 this this solution worked for me. (TF-GPU 2.0, Windows 10, GeForce RTX 2070)
physical_devices = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
assert len(physical_devices) > 0, "Not enough GPU hardware devices available"
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(physical_devices[0], True)
# allocate 60% of GPU memory
from keras.backend.tensorflow_backend import set_session
import tensorflow as tf
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = 0.6
set_session(tf.Session(config=config))
this code has worked for me:
import tensorflow as tf
config = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.compat.v1.InteractiveSession(config=config)
Well I am new to tensorflow, I have Geforce 740m or something GPU with 2GB ram, I was running mnist handwritten kind of example for a native language with training data containing of 38700 images and 4300 testing images and was trying to get precision , recall , F1 using following code as sklearn was not giving me precise reults. once i added this to my existing code i started getting GPU errors.
TP = tf.count_nonzero(predicted * actual)
TN = tf.count_nonzero((predicted - 1) * (actual - 1))
FP = tf.count_nonzero(predicted * (actual - 1))
FN = tf.count_nonzero((predicted - 1) * actual)
prec = TP / (TP + FP)
recall = TP / (TP + FN)
f1 = 2 * prec * recall / (prec + recall)
plus my model was heavy i guess, i was getting memory error after 147, 148 epochs, and then I thought why not create functions for the tasks so I dont know if it works this way in tensrorflow, but I thought if a local variable is used and when out of scope it may release memory and i defined the above elements for training and testing in modules, I was able to achieve 10000 epochs without any issues, I hope this will help..
i tried to train unet on voc data set but because of huge image size, memory finishes. i tried all the above tips, even tried with batch size==1, yet to no improvement. sometimes TensorFlow version also causes the memory issues. try by using
pip install tensorflow-gpu==1.8.0
I am currently trying to run a text-based sequence to sequence model using tensorflow 2.6 and CuDNN.
The code is running, but taking suspiciously long. When I check my Task Manager, I see the following:
This looks weird to me, because all memory is taking but it's not under heavy load.
Is this expected behaviour?
System:
Windows 10
Python 3.9.9
Tensorflow & Keras 2.6
CUDA 11.6
CuDNN 8.3
NVidia RTX 3080ti
In the code I found the following settings for the GPU
def get_gpu_config():
gconfig = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
gconfig.gpu_options.per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = 0.975 # Don't take 100% of the memory
gconfig.allow_soft_placement = True # Does not aggressively take all the GPU memory
gconfig.gpu_options.allow_growth = True # Take more memory when necessary
return gconfig
My python output tells me it found my graphics card:
And it is also visible in my nvidia-smi output:
Am I maybe missing a configuration?
The times it takes are similar to what I got on a CPU system, which seems off to me.
Sidenote:
The Code I try to run had to be migrated from tensorflow-gpu 1.12, but that went "relatively" smooth.
Yes this behaviour is normal for TensorFlow!
From the TensorFlow docs
By default, TensorFlow maps nearly all of the GPU memory of all GPUs (subject to CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES) visible to the process. This is done to more efficiently use the relatively precious GPU memory resources on the devices by reducing memory fragmentation. To limit TensorFlow to a specific set of GPUs, use the tf.config.set_visible_devices method.
If you don't want TensorFlow to allocate the totality of your VRAM, you can either set a hard limit on how much memory to use or tell TensorFlow to only allocate as much memory as needed.
To set a hard limit
Configure a virtual GPU device as follows:
gpus = tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
# Restrict TensorFlow to only allocate 1GB of memory on the first GPU
try:
tf.config.set_logical_device_configuration(
gpus[0],
[tf.config.LogicalDeviceConfiguration(memory_limit=1024)])
logical_gpus = tf.config.list_logical_devices('GPU')
print(len(gpus), "Physical GPUs,", len(logical_gpus), "Logical GPUs")
except RuntimeError as e:
# Virtual devices must be set before GPUs have been initialized
print(e)
Only use as much as needed
You can set the environment variable TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH=true
OR
Use tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth as follows:
gpus = tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
try:
# Currently, memory growth needs to be the same across GPUs
for gpu in gpus:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True)
logical_gpus = tf.config.list_logical_devices('GPU')
print(len(gpus), "Physical GPUs,", len(logical_gpus), "Logical GPUs")
except RuntimeError as e:
# Memory growth must be set before GPUs have been initialized
print(e)
All code and information here is taken from https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu#limiting_gpu_memory_growth
I am trying to run tensorflow-gpu version 2.4.0-dev20200828 (a tf-nightly build) for a convolutional neural network implementation. Some other details:
The version of python is Python 3.8.5.
Running Windows 10
Using an nVidia RTX 2080 which has 8 GB VRAM
Cuda Version 11.1
The following snippet is what I run:
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
try:
tf.config.experimental.set_virtual_device_configuration(
gpus[0],
[tf.config.experimental.VirtualDeviceConfiguration(memory_limit=1024)])
logical_gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_logical_devices('GPU')
print(len(gpus), "Physical GPUs,", len(logical_gpus), "Logical GPUs")
except RuntimeError as e:
# Virtual devices must be set before GPUs have been initialized
print(e)
vgg_16 = keras.applications.VGG16(include_top=False, input_shape=(600, 600, 3))
random_image = np.random.rand(1, 600, 600, 3)
output = vgg_16(random_image)
The code for the memory configuration was taken from answers from here
The issue I am having is that my GPU has 8GB of VRAM, and I need to be able to run the CNN with relatively large image batch sizes. The example is executed on a single image, but surprisingly I seem to only be able to increase the batch size to about 2-3 600 by 600 images. The code taken as per the comments says that it:
Restrict TensorFlow to only allocate 1GB of memory on the first GPU, which is clearly not ideal.
On the one hand if I allocate more, say 4000MB, I get errors such as:
E tensorflow/stream_executor/cuda/cuda_dnn.cc:325] Could not create cudnn handle: CUDNN_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED
If I leave it as 1024 MB, I get messages like:
Allocator (GPU_0_bfc) ran out of memory trying to allocate 3.25GiB with freed_by_count=0. The caller indicates that this is not a failure, but may mean that there could be performance gains if more memory were available.
Any insights/resources on how to understand this issue much appreciated. I'd be willing to switch to another version of tensorflow/python/cuda if necessary, but ultimately I just want to have a deeper understanding of what this issue is.
A better way to control memory usage is by letting memory growth. You should remove all the above codes about gpus and use this instead:
for gpu in tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU'):
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True)
Additionally, you can resize or crop the input image to smaller size to further reduce memory usage.
I work in an environment in which computational resources are shared, i.e., we have a few server machines equipped with a few Nvidia Titan X GPUs each.
For small to moderate size models, the 12 GB of the Titan X is usually enough for 2–3 people to run training concurrently on the same GPU. If the models are small enough that a single model does not take full advantage of all the computational units of the GPU, this can actually result in a speedup compared with running one training process after the other. Even in cases where the concurrent access to the GPU does slow down the individual training time, it is still nice to have the flexibility of having multiple users simultaneously train on the GPU.
The problem with TensorFlow is that, by default, it allocates the full amount of available GPU memory when it is launched. Even for a small two-layer neural network, I see that all 12 GB of the GPU memory is used up.
Is there a way to make TensorFlow only allocate, say, 4 GB of GPU memory, if one knows that this is enough for a given model?
You can set the fraction of GPU memory to be allocated when you construct a tf.Session by passing a tf.GPUOptions as part of the optional config argument:
# Assume that you have 12GB of GPU memory and want to allocate ~4GB:
gpu_options = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
sess = tf.Session(config=tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=gpu_options))
The per_process_gpu_memory_fraction acts as a hard upper bound on the amount of GPU memory that will be used by the process on each GPU on the same machine. Currently, this fraction is applied uniformly to all of the GPUs on the same machine; there is no way to set this on a per-GPU basis.
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth=True
sess = tf.Session(config=config)
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1578
For TensorFlow 2.0 and 2.1 (docs):
import tensorflow as tf
tf.config.gpu.set_per_process_memory_growth(True)
For TensorFlow 2.2+ (docs):
import tensorflow as tf
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
for gpu in gpus:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True)
The docs also list some more methods:
Set environment variable TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH to true.
Use tf.config.experimental.set_virtual_device_configuration to set a hard limit on a Virtual GPU device.
Here is an excerpt from the Book Deep Learning with TensorFlow
In some cases it is desirable for the process to only allocate a subset of the available memory, or to only grow the memory usage as it is needed by the process. TensorFlow provides two configuration options on the session to control this. The first is the allow_growth option, which attempts to allocate only as much GPU memory based on runtime allocations, it starts out allocating very little memory, and as sessions get run and more GPU memory is needed, we extend the GPU memory region needed by the TensorFlow process.
1) Allow growth: (more flexible)
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.Session(config=config, ...)
The second method is per_process_gpu_memory_fraction option, which determines the fraction of the overall amount of memory that each visible GPU should be allocated. Note: No release of memory needed, it can even worsen memory fragmentation when done.
2) Allocate fixed memory:
To only allocate 40% of the total memory of each GPU by:
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = 0.4
session = tf.Session(config=config, ...)
Note:
That's only useful though if you truly want to bind the amount of GPU memory available on the TensorFlow process.
For Tensorflow version 2.0 and 2.1 use the following snippet:
import tensorflow as tf
gpu_devices = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu_devices[0], True)
For prior versions , following snippet used to work for me:
import tensorflow as tf
tf_config=tf.ConfigProto()
tf_config.gpu_options.allow_growth=True
sess = tf.Session(config=tf_config)
All the answers above assume execution with a sess.run() call, which is becoming the exception rather than the rule in recent versions of TensorFlow.
When using the tf.Estimator framework (TensorFlow 1.4 and above) the way to pass the fraction along to the implicitly created MonitoredTrainingSession is,
opts = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
conf = tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=opts)
trainingConfig = tf.estimator.RunConfig(session_config=conf, ...)
tf.estimator.Estimator(model_fn=...,
config=trainingConfig)
Similarly in Eager mode (TensorFlow 1.5 and above),
opts = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.333)
conf = tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=opts)
tfe.enable_eager_execution(config=conf)
Edit: 11-04-2018
As an example, if you are to use tf.contrib.gan.train, then you can use something similar to bellow:
tf.contrib.gan.gan_train(........, config=conf)
You can use
TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH=true
in your environment variables.
In tensorflow code:
bool GPUBFCAllocator::GetAllowGrowthValue(const GPUOptions& gpu_options) {
const char* force_allow_growth_string =
std::getenv("TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH");
if (force_allow_growth_string == nullptr) {
return gpu_options.allow_growth();
}
Tensorflow 2.0 Beta and (probably) beyond
The API changed again. It can be now found in:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(
device,
enable
)
Aliases:
tf.compat.v1.config.experimental.set_memory_growth
tf.compat.v2.config.experimental.set_memory_growth
References:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf/config/experimental/set_memory_growth
https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu#limiting_gpu_memory_growth
See also:
Tensorflow - Use a GPU: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/gpu
for Tensorflow 2.0 Alpha see: this answer
All the answers above refer to either setting the memory to a certain extent in TensorFlow 1.X versions or to allow memory growth in TensorFlow 2.X.
The method tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth indeed works for allowing dynamic growth during the allocation/preprocessing. Nevertheless one may like to allocate from the start a specific-upper limit GPU memory.
The logic behind allocating a specific GPU memory would also be to prevent OOM memory during training sessions. For example, if one trains while opening video-memory consuming Chrome tabs/any other video consumption process, the tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True) could result in OOM errors thrown, hence the necessity of allocating from the start more memory in certain cases.
The recommended and correct way in which to allot memory per GPU in TensorFlow 2.X is done in the following manner:
gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
# Restrict TensorFlow to only allocate 1GB of memory on the first GPU
try:
tf.config.experimental.set_virtual_device_configuration(
gpus[0],
[tf.config.experimental.VirtualDeviceConfiguration(memory_limit=1024)]
Shameless plug: If you install the GPU supported Tensorflow, the session will first allocate all GPUs whether you set it to use only CPU or GPU. I may add my tip that even you set the graph to use CPU only you should set the same configuration(as answered above:) ) to prevent the unwanted GPU occupation.
And in an interactive interface like IPython and Jupyter, you should also set that configure, otherwise, it will allocate all memory and leave almost none for others. This is sometimes hard to notice.
If you're using Tensorflow 2 try the following:
config = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.compat.v1.Session(config=config)
For Tensorflow 2.0 this this solution worked for me. (TF-GPU 2.0, Windows 10, GeForce RTX 2070)
physical_devices = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')
assert len(physical_devices) > 0, "Not enough GPU hardware devices available"
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(physical_devices[0], True)
# allocate 60% of GPU memory
from keras.backend.tensorflow_backend import set_session
import tensorflow as tf
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.per_process_gpu_memory_fraction = 0.6
set_session(tf.Session(config=config))
this code has worked for me:
import tensorflow as tf
config = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.compat.v1.InteractiveSession(config=config)
Well I am new to tensorflow, I have Geforce 740m or something GPU with 2GB ram, I was running mnist handwritten kind of example for a native language with training data containing of 38700 images and 4300 testing images and was trying to get precision , recall , F1 using following code as sklearn was not giving me precise reults. once i added this to my existing code i started getting GPU errors.
TP = tf.count_nonzero(predicted * actual)
TN = tf.count_nonzero((predicted - 1) * (actual - 1))
FP = tf.count_nonzero(predicted * (actual - 1))
FN = tf.count_nonzero((predicted - 1) * actual)
prec = TP / (TP + FP)
recall = TP / (TP + FN)
f1 = 2 * prec * recall / (prec + recall)
plus my model was heavy i guess, i was getting memory error after 147, 148 epochs, and then I thought why not create functions for the tasks so I dont know if it works this way in tensrorflow, but I thought if a local variable is used and when out of scope it may release memory and i defined the above elements for training and testing in modules, I was able to achieve 10000 epochs without any issues, I hope this will help..
i tried to train unet on voc data set but because of huge image size, memory finishes. i tried all the above tips, even tried with batch size==1, yet to no improvement. sometimes TensorFlow version also causes the memory issues. try by using
pip install tensorflow-gpu==1.8.0
Cntk only detect 1 device(my cpu) by calling cntk.all_devices(). However I do have a gpu on my computer. By running the tutorial supported by cntk, I could get some info:
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GPU info:
Device[0]: cores = 48; computeCapability = 2.1; type = "NVS 310"; memory = 512 MB
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Model has 9 nodes. Using CPU.
As an consequence, I can not use my gpu as by calling set_default_device(gpu(0)). How could I solve this problem?
The minimum GPU compute capability for CNTK is 3.0. (Edit: The fact that you can run the tutorial using cntk.exe indicates a bug somewhere in the v1 executable.). When you run the tutorial with cntk.exe, it prints out the GPU info, but still ends up using CPU: Model has 9 nodes. Using CPU.
The only way to solve this problem is to change the value of the constant MininumCCMajorForGpu in BestGpu.cpp and recompile.