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# torch.cuda.memory_summary

torch.cuda.memory_summary(device=None, abbreviated=False)

  Returns a human-readable printout of the current memory allocator statistics for a given device.

  This can be useful to display periodically during training, or when handling out-of-memory exceptions.

  Parameters:

    - device (torch.device or int, optional) – selected device. Returns printout for the current device, given by `current_device()`, if `device` is `None` (default).

    - abbreviated (bool, optional) – whether to return an abbreviated summary (default: False).

  Return type:

    str

  Note

  See Memory management for more details about GPU memory management.

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