Tensorflow crashes with CUBLAS_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED

Question

I\'m running tensorflow-gpu on Windows 10 using a simple MINST neural network program. When it tries to run, it encounters a CUBLAS_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED error. A

Answer 1

The location of the "allow_growth" property of the session config seems to be different now. It's explained here: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/using_gpu

So currently you'd have to set it like this:

import tensorflow as tf
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
session = tf.Session(config=config, ...)