I have a large object that I want to save to the disk because it takes a minute to generate. The OOM reaper kills the process while pickle.dump ing the object.

It’s a tuple of dicts of tuple of array.array.

Can pickle dump in chunks? If not, is there another technique I can use?

  • alehc@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You mean numpy arrays? I think the most efficient way to store them is via np.save. You could try creating a new directory and store all of your arrays there with clever file naming to retrieve the dictionary structure later.

    Alternatively if you are up to trying to use pytorch you can convert the arrays to tensors and use torch.save to save the entire dictionary in one file. Installing pytorch just for this might be a bit overkill as it is a >1GB installation tho.

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    1 year ago

    If you’re pickling that much data you should definitely consider using a more appropriate data format. Maybe a database or HDF5?

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. When I started, things were much simpler. Trying not to revise too much code but I can if there’s no other option.

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    1 year ago

    How are you dumping it?

    Can you show us the code?

    Have you tried splitting your tuple and save each dicts of the tuple separately?