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Added expandable_segments as hydra option - #362

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Closes #336

@Sllambias I don't know if there's a more elegant solution? I tried to use hydra.env_set, but it fails at runtime if we want to specify it via. the hardware configs

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    • Configured training jobs to use expandable CUDA memory segments, which may improve GPU memory allocation behavior.

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The base training configuration sets PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF to expandable_segments:True for Hydra jobs.

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CUDA allocator configuration

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Set expandable allocator segments
configs/core/base_train.yaml
The Hydra job environment sets PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF to expandable_segments:True.

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Training runs that rely on allocator options supplied through the process environment will instead use expandable_segments:True. Users can provide a replacement through Hydra configuration; confirm that this behavior is acceptable before merging.

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The change sets a shared CUDA allocator default without adding credentials, permissions, or network access. No security concern was established, but environment isolation and restoration across job failures and concurrent launches remain unverified.

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if cfg.hardware.get("expandable_segments"):
import os

os.environ["PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF"] = "expandable_segments:True"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Merge the new option with the existing allocator configuration.

These assignments replace the entire environment value, so any pre-existing allocator options are discarded. PyTorch reads allocator configuration from this environment setting. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

  • bonsai/run/train.py#L38-L38: preserve the effective existing allocator options when adding expandable_segments:True.
  • bonsai/run/pretrain.py#L32-L32: preserve the effective existing allocator options when adding expandable_segments:True.
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Update the allocator environment configuration in bonsai/run/train.py lines
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Because your first solution didn't work I think just setting this in the core config is the cleanest and nicest solution. For the odd case that the user needs to change it, they can override this, but for 99% of runs this should just be on by default for the repo


job:
    env_set:
      PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF: expandable_segments:TRUE

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Set expandable_segments: True as a default

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