OSError: Memory mapping file failed: Cannot allocate memory
Dear @lhoestq 

thank you very much for the very sharp observation, indeed, this happens there, I use the default value of 5, I basically plan to subsample a part of the large  dataset and choose it as validation set. Do you think this is bringing the data into memory during subsampling? Is there a way I could avoid this?

Thank you very much for the great help.


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> I noticed that the error happens when loading the validation dataset.
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Hi,
I am trying to run a code with a wikipedia dataset, here is the command to reproduce the error. You can find the codes for run_mlm.py in huggingface repo here: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v4.3.2/examples/language-modeling/run_mlm.py 
```
python run_mlm.py --model_name_or_path bert-base-multilingual-cased --dataset_name wikipedia --dataset_config_name 20200501.en --do_train --do_eval --output_dir /dara/test  --max_seq_length 128
```

I am using transformer version: 4.3.2 

But I got memory erorr using this dataset, is there a way I could save on memory with dataset library with wikipedia dataset?
Specially I need to train a model with multiple of wikipedia datasets concatenated. thank you very much @lhoestq  for your help and suggestions:

```
  File "run_mlm.py", line 441, in <module>
    main()
  File "run_mlm.py", line 233, in main
    split=f"train[{data_args.validation_split_percentage}%:]",
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/load.py", line 750, in load_dataset
    ds = builder_instance.as_dataset(split=split, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications, in_memory=keep_in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 740, in as_dataset
    map_tuple=True,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/utils/py_utils.py", line 225, in map_nested
    return function(data_struct)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 757, in _build_single_dataset
    in_memory=in_memory,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 829, in _as_dataset
    in_memory=in_memory,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 215, in read
    return self.read_files(files=files, original_instructions=instructions, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 236, in read_files
    pa_table = self._read_files(files, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 171, in _read_files
    pa_table: pa.Table = self._get_dataset_from_filename(f_dict, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 302, in _get_dataset_from_filename
    pa_table = ArrowReader.read_table(filename, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 322, in read_table
    stream = stream_from(filename)
  File "pyarrow/io.pxi", line 782, in pyarrow.lib.memory_map
  File "pyarrow/io.pxi", line 743, in pyarrow.lib.MemoryMappedFile._open
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 122, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 99, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
OSError: Memory mapping file failed: Cannot allocate memory
```



OSError: Memory mapping file failed: Cannot allocate memory 
 Hi,
I am trying to run a code with a wikipedia dataset, here is the command to reproduce the error. You can find the codes for run_mlm.py in huggingface repo here: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v4.3.2/examples/language-modeling/run_mlm.py 
```
python run_mlm.py --model_name_or_path bert-base-multilingual-cased --dataset_name wikipedia --dataset_config_name 20200501.en --do_train --do_eval --output_dir /dara/test  --max_seq_length 128
```

I am using transformer version: 4.3.2 

But I got memory erorr using this dataset, is there a way I could save on memory with dataset library with wikipedia dataset?
Specially I need to train a model with multiple of wikipedia datasets concatenated. thank you very much @lhoestq  for your help and suggestions:

```
  File "run_mlm.py", line 441, in <module>
    main()
  File "run_mlm.py", line 233, in main
    split=f"train[{data_args.validation_split_percentage}%:]",
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/load.py", line 750, in load_dataset
    ds = builder_instance.as_dataset(split=split, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications, in_memory=keep_in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 740, in as_dataset
    map_tuple=True,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/utils/py_utils.py", line 225, in map_nested
    return function(data_struct)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 757, in _build_single_dataset
    in_memory=in_memory,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/builder.py", line 829, in _as_dataset
    in_memory=in_memory,
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 215, in read
    return self.read_files(files=files, original_instructions=instructions, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 236, in read_files
    pa_table = self._read_files(files, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 171, in _read_files
    pa_table: pa.Table = self._get_dataset_from_filename(f_dict, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 302, in _get_dataset_from_filename
    pa_table = ArrowReader.read_table(filename, in_memory=in_memory)
  File "/dara/libs/anaconda3/envs/code/lib/python3.7/site-packages/datasets-1.3.0-py3.7.egg/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 322, in read_table
    stream = stream_from(filename)
  File "pyarrow/io.pxi", line 782, in pyarrow.lib.memory_map
  File "pyarrow/io.pxi", line 743, in pyarrow.lib.MemoryMappedFile._open
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 122, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 99, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
OSError: Memory mapping file failed: Cannot allocate memory
```


 
 Dear @lhoestq 

thank you very much for the very sharp observation, indeed, this happens there, I use the default value of 5, I basically plan to subsample a part of the large  dataset and choose it as validation set. Do you think this is bringing the data into memory during subsampling? Is there a way I could avoid this?

Thank you very much for the great help.


On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 11:28 AM Quentin Lhoest ***@***.***>
wrote:

> I noticed that the error happens when loading the validation dataset.
> What value of data_args.validation_split_percentage did you use ?
>
> —
> You are receiving this because you authored the thread.
> Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub
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