Did you experiment any drop of performances using forkserver?

No, seems to be working properly for me.

If yes, did you test the variant suggested in the pytorch issue? If yes, did it solve the speed issue?

I haven't tested it, that said it seems like a generic optimization of the DataLoader

Hi AgitatedDove14 , so I ran 3 experiments:
One with my current implementation (using "fork") One using "forkserver" One using "forkserver" + the DataLoader optimizationI sent you the results via MP, here are the outcomes:
fork -> 101 mins, low RAM usage (5Go constant), almost no IO forkserver -> 123 mins, high RAM usage (16Go, fluctuations), high IO forkserver + DataLoader optimization: 105 mins, high RAM usage (from 28Go to 16Go), high IO
CPU/GPU curves are the same for the 3 experiments. Switching to forkserver doesn't appear to be ideal for my use case because of the high mem consumption. The ideal solution for me would be to keep fork as it appears to be both fast and low resource consuming. Would that be something possible?

Hi JitteryCoyote63
If you want to stop the Task, click Abort (Reset will not stop the task or restart it, it will just clear the outputs and let you edit the Task itself) I think we witnessed something like that due to DataLoaders multiprocessing issues, and I think the solution was to add 'multiprocessing_context='forkserver' to the DataLoaderhttps://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/207#issuecomment-702422291
Could you verify?

Hi AgitatedDove14 , thanks for the answer! I will try adding 'multiprocessing_context='forkserver' to the DataLoader. In the issue you linked, nirraviv mentionned that forkserver was slower and shared a link to another issue https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/15849#issuecomment-573921048 where someone implemented a fast variant of the DataLoader to overcome the speed problem.
Did you experiment any drop of performances using forkserver? If yes, did you test the variant suggested in the pytorch issue? If yes, did it solve the speed issue?