Common Issues

##This is an active project.

Before reading any of these, do a git pull and see if it fixed your issue.

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###Cannot Load Checkpoint or Sample Data symptoms

luajit failing with cannot open mode r, similar to issue #46

solutions

• double check the directory you're loading the file from
• check that the current account has read permissions on that file

###Cannot Generate Text symptoms

luajit failing with bad argument #1 to 'size', similar to issue #44

solutions

• if you specified primetext, verify that each character has already been seen in the training set

###Fails to start, claiming cunn/cutorch package not found symptoms

cunn/cutorch package not found

solutions

• verify you have NVidia's CUDA runtime installed
• install cunn or cutorch package with luarocks install cunn or luarocks install cutorch
• execute the command as root with sudo

###CPU training executes with only one thread symptoms

only a single core of a multicore system is being heavily used

solutions

• compile OpenBLAS with multithreading support, and compile and link Torch against it.

###loss is exploding, aborting. symptoms

train_loss value slowly decreases then suddenly increases to a much higher value

solutions

###cuda runtime error (2) : out of memory symptoms

train.lua crashes early on, with the aforementioned error

solutions

• lower num_layers parameter, which defaults to 2 if omitted
• lower rnn_size parameter, which defaults to 128 if omitted
• lower batch_size parameter, which defaults to 50 if omitted
• Linux and some Windows users can take advantage of nvidia-smi to view available memory in the GPU