delu.hardware.free_memory

delu.hardware.free_memory()

Free GPU-memory occupied by torch and run the garbage collector.

Warning

There is a small chunk of GPU-memory (occupied by drivers) that is impossible to free. It is a torch “limitation”, so the function inherits this property.

Inspired by: https://github.com/xtinkt/editable/blob/1c80efb80c196cdb925fc994fc9ed576a246c7a1/lib/utils/basic.py#L124

Return type

None