[DatLoader problem in Unet] num_of_worker >0 error

Moonlight: <p>I use window 10, anaconda, python 3.7, spyder. GPU is geforce 1050Ti.</p>
<p>This is my dataset and dataloader code</p>
<p>class Dataset(<em>emphasized text</em>object):<br>
def <strong>init</strong>(self, fname ,img_transform=None, mask_transform = None, edge_weight= False):<br>
<span class="hashtag">#nothing</span> special here, just internalizing the constructor parameters<br>
self.fname=fname<br>
self.edge_weight = edge_weight</p>
<pre><code>    self.img_transform=img_transform
    self.mask_transform = mask_transform
    
    self.tables=tables.open_file(self.fname)
    self.numpixels=self.tables.root.numpixels[:]
    self.nitems=self.tables.root.img.shape[0]
    self.tables.close()
    
    self.img = None
    self.mask = None
    
def __getitem__(self, index):
    #opening should be done in __init__ but seems to be
    #an issue with multithreading so doing here
    with tables.open_file(self.fname,'r') as db:
        self.img=db.root.img
        self.mask=db.root.mask
   
        #get the requested image and mask from the pytable
        img = self.img[index,:,:,:]
        mask = self.mask[index,:,:]
    
    #the original Unet paper assignes increased weights to the edges of the annotated objects
    #their method is more sophistocated, but this one is faster, we simply dilate the mask and 
    #highlight all the pixels which were "added"
    if(self.edge_weight):
        weight = scipy.ndimage.morphology.binary_dilation(mask==1, iterations =2) &amp; ~mask
    else: #otherwise the edge weight is all ones and thus has no affect
        weight = np.ones(mask.shape,dtype=mask.dtype)
    
    mask = mask[:,:,None].repeat(3,axis=2) #in order to use the transformations given by torchvision
    weight = weight[:,:,None].repeat(3,axis=2) #inputs need to be 3D, so here we convert from 1d to 3d by repetition
    
    img_new = img
    mask_new = mask
    weight_new = weight
    
    seed = random.randrange(sys.maxsize) #get a random seed so that we can reproducibly do the transofrmations
    if self.img_transform is not None:
        random.seed(seed) # apply this seed to img transforms
        img_new = self.img_transform(img)

    if self.mask_transform is not None:
        random.seed(seed)
        mask_new = self.mask_transform(mask)
        mask_new = np.asarray(mask_new)[:,:,0].squeeze()
        
        random.seed(seed)
        weight_new = self.mask_transform(weight)
        weight_new = np.asarray(weight_new)[:,:,0].squeeze()

    return img_new, mask_new, weight_new
def __len__(self):
    return self.nitems
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<p><span class="hashtag">#note</span> that since we need the transofrmations to be reproducible for both masks and images<br>
<span class="hashtag">#we</span> do the spatial transformations first, and afterwards do any color augmentations<br>
img_transform = transforms.Compose([<br>
transforms.ToPILImage(),<br>
transforms.RandomVerticalFlip(),<br>
transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),<br>
transforms.RandomCrop(size=(patch_size,patch_size),pad_if_needed=True), <span class="hashtag">#these</span> need to be in a reproducible order, first affine transforms and then color<br>
transforms.RandomResizedCrop(size=patch_size),<br>
transforms.RandomRotation(180),<br>
transforms.ColorJitter(brightness=0, contrast=0, saturation=0, hue=.5),<br>
transforms.RandomGrayscale(),<br>
transforms.ToTensor()<br>
])</p>
<p>mask_transform = transforms.Compose([<br>
transforms.ToPILImage(),<br>
transforms.RandomVerticalFlip(),<br>
transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),<br>
transforms.RandomCrop(size=(patch_size,patch_size),pad_if_needed=True), <span class="hashtag">#these</span> need to be in a reproducible order, first affine transforms and then color<br>
transforms.RandomResizedCrop(size=patch_size,interpolation=PIL.Image.NEAREST),<br>
transforms.RandomRotation(180),<br>
])</p>
<p>dataset={}<br>
dataLoader={}<br>
for phase in phases: <span class="hashtag">#now</span> for each of the phases, we’re creating the dataloader<br>
<span class="hashtag">#interestingly</span>, given the batch size, i’ve not seen any improvements from using a num_workers&gt;0</p>
<pre><code>dataset[phase]=Dataset(f"./{dataname}_{phase}.pytable", img_transform=img_transform , mask_transform = mask_transform ,edge_weight=edge_weight)
dataLoader[phase]=DataLoader(dataset[phase], batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True, num_workers=2, pin_memory=True)
</code></pre>
<p>======================================================</p>
<p>for x,y,w in dataLoader[‘train’]:<br>
print(x.shape, y.shape, w.shape)</p>
<p>I try this and it cause error.</p>
<p>ipdb&gt; _CudaDeviceProperties(name=‘GeForce GTX 1050 Ti’, major=6, minor=1, total_memory=4096MB, multi_processor_count=6)<br>
total params:   122466</p>
<p>ipdb&gt; Traceback (most recent call last):</p>
<p>File “”, line 1, in <br>
debugfile(‘C:/Users/mbmhm/Desktop/unet/train_unet.py’, wdir=‘C:/Users/mbmhm/Desktop/unet’)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 856, in debugfile<br>
debugger.run(“runfile(%r, args=%r, wdir=%r)” % (filename, args, wdir))</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\bdb.py”, line 585, in run<br>
exec(cmd, globals, locals)</p>
<p>File “”, line 1, in </p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 827, in runfile<br>
execfile(filename, namespace)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 110, in execfile<br>
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, ‘exec’), namespace)</p>
<p>File “c:/users/mbmhm/desktop/unet/train_unet.py”, line 200, in <br>
for x,y,w in dataLoader[‘train’]:</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\data\dataloader.py”, line 576, in <strong>next</strong><br>
idx, batch = self._get_batch()</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\data\dataloader.py”, line 543, in _get_batch<br>
success, data = self._try_get_batch()</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\data\dataloader.py”, line 519, in _try_get_batch<br>
raise RuntimeError(‘DataLoader worker (pid(s) {}) exited unexpectedly’.format(pids_str))</p>
<p>RuntimeError: DataLoader worker (pid(s) 764, 5540) exited unexpectedly</p>
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<p>When i try this one, error occurs too.</p>
<p>writer=SummaryWriter() <span class="hashtag">#open</span> the tensorboard visualiser<br>
best_loss_on_test = np.Infinity<br>
edge_weight=torch.tensor(edge_weight).to(device)<br>
start_time = time.time()<br>
for epoch in range(num_epochs):<br>
<span class="hashtag">#zero</span> out epoch based performance variables<br>
all_acc = {key: 0 for key in phases}<br>
all_loss = {key: torch.zeros(0).to(device) for key in phases}<br>
cmatrix = {key: np.zeros((2,2)) for key in phases}</p>
<pre><code>for phase in phases: #iterate through both training and validation states

    if phase == 'train':
        model.train()  # Set model to training mode
    else: #when in eval mode, we don't want parameters to be updated
        model.eval()   # Set model to evaluate mode

    for ii , [X, y, y_weight] in enumerate(dataLoader[phase]): #for each of the batches
        X = X.to(device)  # [Nbatch, 3, H, W]
        y_weight = y_weight.type('torch.FloatTensor').to(device)
        y = y.type('torch.LongTensor').to(device)  # [Nbatch, H, W] 
</code></pre>
<p>File “”, line 1, in <br>
debugfile(‘C:/Users/mbmhm/Desktop/unet/train_unet.py’, wdir=‘C:/Users/mbmhm/Desktop/unet’)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 856, in debugfile<br>
debugger.run(“runfile(%r, args=%r, wdir=%r)” % (filename, args, wdir))</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\bdb.py”, line 585, in run<br>
exec(cmd, globals, locals)</p>
<p>File “”, line 1, in </p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 827, in runfile<br>
execfile(filename, namespace)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py”, line 110, in execfile<br>
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, ‘exec’), namespace)</p>
<p>File “c:/users/mbmhm/desktop/unet/train_unet.py”, line 265, in <br>
for ii , [X, y, y_weight] in enumerate(dataLoader[phase]): <span class="hashtag">#for</span> each of the batches</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\data\dataloader.py”, line 193, in <strong>iter</strong><br>
return _DataLoaderIter(self)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\data\dataloader.py”, line 469, in <strong>init</strong><br>
w.start()</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\multiprocessing\process.py”, line 112, in start<br>
self._popen = self._Popen(self)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\multiprocessing\context.py”, line 223, in _Popen<br>
return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\multiprocessing\context.py”, line 322, in _Popen<br>
return Popen(process_obj)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\multiprocessing\popen_spawn_win32.py”, line 89, in <strong>init</strong><br>
reduction.dump(process_obj, to_child)</p>
<p>File “C:\Users\mbmhm\ansel\Anaconda3\envs\moongpu\lib\multiprocessing\reduction.py”, line 60, in dump<br>
ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)</p>
<p>File “stringsource”, line 2, in tables.hdf5extension.Array.<strong>reduce_cython</strong></p>
<p>TypeError: self.dims,self.dims_chunk,self.maxdims cannot be converted to a Python object for pickling</p>
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<p>plz solve this Problem</p>