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Training lasts just 150 seconds for TinyLlama OpenWebtext dataset

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Hello

I am trying to train a model on openwebtext dataset and TinyLlama model, as specified here ([https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/blob/main/tutorials/0_to_litgpt.md#pretrain-llms](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/blob/main/tutorials/0_to_litgpt.md#pretrain-llms)) but the training lasts for just 150 seconds.

I am not sure where does it gets it's configuration from or how do i make sure the training runs longer for a better model. Can anyone help me out with that?

Command used

`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2 TORCHDYNAMO_DISABLE=1 TORCHDYNAMO_SUPPRESS_ERRORS=True litgpt pretrain --model_name tiny-llama-1.1b --data OpenWebText --tokenizer_dir checkpoints/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-intermediate-step-1431k-3T --train.max_tokens 100000 --out_dir out/custom-model --train.global_batch_size 64 --eval.max_iters 10000 --train.micro_batch_size 2 --train.log_interval 2
`

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