dumpText.py returns with 'Killed'

[aniemerg]

I installed Visual-qa in a Docker container run on a Mac. While running get_started.sh, I ran into trouble with

python dumpText.py -split train -answers modal

Running that line separately, it was exiting prematurely with the simple message "Killed". I worked line by line through the code and qa = json.load(open(annFile, 'r')) appears to be the source of the problems. My best guess is that JSON is attempting to load the entire training annotations file into memory fails because of its size.

[avisingh599]

I am not familiar with Mac, but when I work on Linux I usually increase my swap when I run into memory issues. I have tested the software on 8GB RAM, and about ~15GB Swap (if I remember correctly).

If that does not have work out, then you may have to break the training data into multiple files, and load them one by one while training.

[tczhangzhi]

You can follow these steps to run it. Avisingh599 is right. You need to expend your swap~