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Example code (mnist) does not work under torch.utils.bottleneck

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#391 opened on Jul 25, 2018

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Description

Example code (mnist) does not work under torch.utils.bottleneck. This is solved by changing the value num_workers from 1 to 0. It needs to check other examples also.

Reference https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/6313 https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/cannot-measure-cuda-usage-on-mnist-example/21600/2

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Locate the mnist example file, find the DataLoader with num workers=1, change it to 0, and verify the fix. Also check other examples for similar issues as mentioned in the references.
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