{
  "id": 185697,
  "title": "pip installation consumes RAM",
  "url": "/competitions/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/185697",
  "author_name": "Vladislav Ostankovich",
  "post_date": "2020-09-21T19:28:39.625000",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Recently found out how pip drastically consumes RAM when installing packages, especially large ones. For example after installing torch 1.6.0 from .whl, the RAM is 3.5GB consumed. Why does it happen and is it possible to somehow free RAM after the pip installation?</p>",
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      "postDate": "2020-09-21T19:28:39.627Z",
      "content": "<p>Recently found out how pip drastically consumes RAM when installing packages, especially large ones. For example after installing torch 1.6.0 from .whl, the RAM is 3.5GB consumed. Why does it happen and is it possible to somehow free RAM after the pip installation?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Recently found out how pip drastically consumes RAM when installing packages, especially large ones. For example after installing torch 1.6.0 from .whl, the RAM is 3.5GB consumed. Why does it happen and is it possible to somehow free RAM after the pip installation?\n\n",
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    "1021359": "Recently found out how pip drastically consumes RAM when installing packages, especially large ones. For example after installing torch 1.6.0 from .whl, the RAM is 3.5GB consumed. Why does it happen and is it possible to somehow free RAM after the pip installation?\n\n"
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