Hi.

Which models are you using and which version of scikit-learn?

Cheers,
Andy

On 12/16/2014 11:19 AM, Sebastian Raschka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if someone noticed that GridSearch is eating more and more 
> memory over time? I read related discussion on the issue list on GitHub and 
> it sounds like that it has been solved (estimators are not kept anymore, and 
> the best estimator can optionally be refitted at the end of the GridSearch).
>
> However, when I ran the GridSearch, I noticed that it always "crashed" after 
> a couple of hours. When I monitored the system usage over time, I saw the 
> memory utilization (almost linearly) increasing over time until it reached 
> the 128 Gb max of the machine I was running it on.
>
> I then wrote a naive grid search with nested for loops and it had the same 
> issues. So, it is probably not the grid search but something with Python ...
>
> Eventually, I added the 2 lines
>
>      gc.collect()
>      len(gc.get_objects())
>
> which seem to do the trick! Especially the 2nd one. Now, I can run the 
> gridsearch for hours and with a constant ~6.8 Gb memory utilization.
>
>
> I am curious, did anyone else have this memory issue?
>
> Best,
> Sebastian
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