GTX 1060Ti learn.fit() 10x slower than GTX 1080Ti?

[chs820 (Chris)]

Sorry! I didn’t realize this was already being discussed in this thread:

Very slow loading of the Convnet pretrained model on lesson 1

I had the same problem on my DL rig. First time I ran the code it had to download the resnet34 model to the Pytorch models folder. The first time I thought it was taking too long and killed it before I should have. The failed download froze the function every time. My fix was going to the Pytorch models (~/.torch/models) and removing resnet34 to download it again while getting coffee. However, like others, I am still confused on the precompute function. It seems that true or false it will run …