# How can we release GPU memory cache?

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**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/how-can-we-release-gpu-memory-cache/14530 "2018-03-07T10:10:36Z")\
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This works only some of the times.

Even when I clear out all the variables, restart the kernel, and execute `torch.cuda.empty_cache()` as the first line in my code, I still get a ‘CUDA out of memory’ error.

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