{
  "id": 164641,
  "title": "Kernel Performance Issue",
  "url": "/competitions/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion/164641",
  "author_name": "Abhinav Tripathi",
  "post_date": "2020-07-07T03:06:03.848000",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Recently, I got fed up with using slow kaggle kernels, and downloaded the training data to my local machine. I am using the fastai library in this competition. \nEven simple operations like reading all the image files from disk take about 24x longer than my laptop (Intel Core i5-6200U CPU with SSD). I am attaching the screenshots.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Kaggle kernel takes about 2-3 minutes in my experience\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F82718d13667d76759b00867eeee9bd5e%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-25-41.png?generation=1594091009071855&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"kaggle\"></p></li>\n<li><p>Local machine takes 5-6 seconds in general\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F9df8c1e0129dc6efdfcdec4a7d53e128%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-27-10.png?generation=1594091062644488&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"local\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I think it is a problem which must be looked into.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 918153,
      "postDate": "2020-07-07T03:06:03.847Z",
      "content": "<p>Recently, I got fed up with using slow kaggle kernels, and downloaded the training data to my local machine. I am using the fastai library in this competition. \nEven simple operations like reading all the image files from disk take about 24x longer than my laptop (Intel Core i5-6200U CPU with SSD). I am attaching the screenshots.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Kaggle kernel takes about 2-3 minutes in my experience\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F82718d13667d76759b00867eeee9bd5e%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-25-41.png?generation=1594091009071855&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"kaggle\"></p></li>\n<li><p>Local machine takes 5-6 seconds in general\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F9df8c1e0129dc6efdfcdec4a7d53e128%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-27-10.png?generation=1594091062644488&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"local\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I think it is a problem which must be looked into.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Recently, I got fed up with using slow kaggle kernels, and downloaded the training data to my local machine. I am using the fastai library in this competition. \nEven simple operations like reading all the image files from disk take about 24x longer than my laptop (Intel Core i5-6200U CPU with SSD). I am attaching the screenshots.\n\n* Kaggle kernel takes about 2-3 minutes in my experience\n![kaggle](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F82718d13667d76759b00867eeee9bd5e%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-25-41.png?generation=1594091009071855&amp;alt=media)\n\n* Local machine takes 5-6 seconds in general\n![local](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F9df8c1e0129dc6efdfcdec4a7d53e128%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-27-10.png?generation=1594091062644488&amp;alt=media)\n\nI think it is a problem which must be looked into.",
      "votes": 3
    }
  ],
  "comments": [],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "918153": "Recently, I got fed up with using slow kaggle kernels, and downloaded the training data to my local machine. I am using the fastai library in this competition. \nEven simple operations like reading all the image files from disk take about 24x longer than my laptop (Intel Core i5-6200U CPU with SSD). I am attaching the screenshots.\n\n* Kaggle kernel takes about 2-3 minutes in my experience\n![kaggle](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F82718d13667d76759b00867eeee9bd5e%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-25-41.png?generation=1594091009071855&amp;alt=media)\n\n* Local machine takes 5-6 seconds in general\n![local](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F5004815%2F9df8c1e0129dc6efdfcdec4a7d53e128%2FScreenshot%20from%202020-07-07%2008-27-10.png?generation=1594091062644488&amp;alt=media)\n\nI think it is a problem which must be looked into."
  }
}