After colab crashes with 12GB ram, not asking for 25GB ram.Simply restarting

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Hey all,
Usually, colab allocates us 25GB ram when we crash 12GB ram. But in my case, it is not asking or allocating 25GB ram.

a = []

while (1):

a.append(1)

I ran this program to crash. It is crashing but it says, “colab crashed after using all ram, see runtime logs” and then restarts.

what might be the problem here?

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This seems to be a Colab issue and maybe this “hack” of running OOM to get more RAM doesn’t work anymore?

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Yeah, sometimes it works but not every time.
One hack we can do is we can change the backend config of colab

colab
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Here “hm” represents ‘high memory’. So we can add machine_shape field to get high ram

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