Hi everyone, For quite long time I’m struggling with some weird issue regards distributed train/eval. I’m running a slightly modified version of run_clm.py script with vary number of A100 GPUs (4-8) on 1 node, and keep getting the ChildFailedError right after the training/evaluation ends. I’m run…

Hey guys, I’m glad to announce I solved the issue on my side. As can be seen I use multiple GPUs, which have sufficient memory for the use case. HOWEVER! My issue was due to not enough CPU memory. That’s why my runs crashed and without any trace of the reason. Once I allocated enough cpu (on my c…

torch.distributed.elastic.multiprocessing.errors.ChildFailedError

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AnustupOCR August 2, 2023, 9:02am 13

Yeah, my issue got resolved after specifying the docker memory and properly specifying the device id’s with CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=…

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