Hi there,
I am curious about why the first time job launch cost so much time in PyTorch.
e.g. load the model into CPU, move the model to GPU.
Here is the code snippet to reproduce:
import torch.multiprocessing as mp
from torchvision import models
import torch
import time

def only_import():
    """"""
    t1 = time.time()

    model = torch.hub.load('pytorch/vision:v0.4.2',
                           "resnet152",
                           pretrained=True)
    # util.set_fullname(model, MODEL_NAME)
    t2 = time.time()

    model = model.to('cuda')
    t3 = time.time()

    print("import model takes", (t2 - t1) * 1e3, 'ms')
    print("move model to cuda", (t3 - t2) * 1e3, 'ms')

def main():
    """"""

    for _ in range(10):
        proc = mp.Process(target=only_import)
        proc.start()
        proc.join()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    mp.set_start_method("spawn")
    main()

Base on the log, it usually takes 1.5s to 2.2s to load the model to CPU. and over 2 seconds to load the model to cuda.
Is this because PyTorch need to dynamically load libraries from disk, at the first time?
(experiment setup: aws-ec2-p3.2xlarge intance, PyTorch 1.3.0)