No space left on device

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Hi,
when I tried to load the weights of model on my device,
it is shown “no space left on device”. And when I restart the machine, this message might go.
How can I clean the cache without restarting my machine?

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If you’re using torch, you can try torch.cuda.empty_cache(), and if that’s not enough, send your model to the CPU first, then empty the cache. But, if we’re being honest, I can’t ever quite get it to work the way I expect, and usually I end up restarting my kernel, as it’s the only way I know to reliably clear up GPU memory.

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thanks! same with me.
I tried empty_cache() but it does not really work.

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is usually the message you get from your OS when you’re out of disk space. Can you run df -h to find out?

If you’re out of disk space you can delete some cached models from ~/.cache/huggingface

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