Memory and parallelism tuning

[jamessmith123456]

（1）It seems that memory issues cannot be solved when there is a large amount of data.
（2）If the parallelism is 20, the original data will be copied in 20 copies？
（3）How can I solve the coordination relationship between memory and CPU to set the optimal parameters，please?

[nalepae]

(1): Pandarallel basically doubles the amount of needed memory, as stated in the documentation:

pandarallel gets around this limitation by using all cores of your computer. But, in return, pandarallel need twice the memory that standard pandas operation would normally use.

(2): No, the original data will be copied only once, whatever the parallelism.

(3): There is no coordination relationship between CPU and memory (cf (2))

[SysuJayce]

(1): Pandarallel basically doubles the amount of needed memory, as stated in the documentation:

pandarallel gets around this limitation by using all cores of your computer. But, in return, pandarallel need twice the memory that standard pandas operation would normally use.

(2): No, the original data will be copied only once, whatever the parallelism.

(3): There is no coordination relationship between CPU and memory (cf (2))

hi @nalepae , if the amount of data is quite large, how can we boost the preparation before apply()?

If I have 100GB data read in memory, I have to wait a long time before the apply start

[nalepae]

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If you are interested, please open an GitHub issue.

[shermansiu]

@SysuJayce, what do you mean by "boosting the preparation"?

If you are memory-bound, I would suggest breaking up your dataframe into smaller shards and applying your function to each shard.

Do you have any other problems? If not, I would like to close this issue.