Hello, As a prelude to beginning development with PyMC3, I wanted to make sure I had a machine and environment that was capable of running some basic demos. I am using an Amazon AWS instance running Ubuntu, with 32 cores and 244GB memory (so quite a hefty machine). On a basic demo such as the fol…

@twiecki & @junpenglao , Thought you might be interested – it is definitely a platform issue with Linux on AWS. (I only tried Ubuntu, don’t know about other flavors of Linux). See other reports, e.g. memory leak issues when running pymc3 model in a loop …

Excessive memory usage in PyMC3? (Solved - AWS Linux platform issue. Works on AWS Windows)

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twiecki October 19, 2017, 10:42am 5

This could be due to the pre-initialization of the trace, as the model is fairly high-dimensional. Can you try with the HDF5 backend?

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