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Google Colab - Increase RAM upto 25GB

Written by Abhishek mamidi, on

Google colab is a free jupyter notebook that is hosted on Google cloud servers. We can use CPU, GPU and TPU for free. It helps you to write and execute your code. You can directly access this through your browser.

If you want to use Google Cloud/AWS, it requires hell lot of setup. You have to spin a cluster, create a notebook and then use it. But, Google colab will be readily available for you to use it. You can also install libraries from the notebook itself.

These notebooks are very useful for training large models and processing huge datasets. Students and developers can make use of this because it’s very difficult for them to afford GPUs and TPUs.

I was trying to run a memory heavy job. The notebook crashed. Then, I came to know how I can increase the RAM. So, I thought of sharing it in my blog.

There are some constraints with the notebook. You can run these notebooks for not more than 12 hours and you can use only 12 GB RAM.

There is no direct method or button to change the RAM configuration.

NOTE: Please follow this only if you know that your task would require more than 12 GB RAM. Let's not waste resources unneccesarily. If you do this unneccesarily, Google colab might block your account. (edited)

Follow the below steps to increase the RAM to 25GB:
  1. Open the Google colab Jupyter notebook.
  2. Run your task. If it takes less than 12 GB RAM, then you are good. Otherwise, the notebook will crash and you will get a popup notification at the bottom left asking you to increase your RAM.
  3. Click on that and “Switch to a high-RAM runtime”.
On the top right, you can check the RAM configuration. It will be increased to 25 GB.

Use this to use colab for memory heavy jobs that require more than 12 GB RAM.

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  1. Mouli CheethaMay 20, 2020 at 1:42 PM

    Hi, This technique doesn't seems to work's now, now if we try to crash a google colab rather than prompting a pop up it automatically restarts the session with same RAM

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  2. NikhilJune 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM

    This Technique is not working, Can you suggest any alternative for this?

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    1. UnknownApril 2, 2021 at 8:24 PM

      https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1GqZu6zmCy2vMNMZqO78DDuHvwv_9vJcp?usp=sharing

      Go to this URL. This will open up a colab notebook. then go to File-> Save a copy to drive.

      This will open a copy of this notebook but on your drive rename and connct to runtime you will be allocated 25 GB RAM

      Delete
    2. AnonymousApril 19, 2021 at 4:15 AM

      That link is not work for me. Not sure if it works for others?

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    3. AnonymousNovember 24, 2021 at 9:03 PM

      its work for me.. thanks bro

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    4. AnonymousMarch 10, 2023 at 1:25 AM

      Unknown thank you! That works!

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  3. HarshaJune 17, 2020 at 9:18 AM

    it is not working now. it restarts with same ram

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    we dont get any button to increase ram

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