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Multi GPU not being utilized

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Since Jun 22, 2020.

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Description

System information
  • What is the top-level directory of the model you are using: object-detection
  • Have I written custom code (as opposed to using a stock example script provided in TensorFlow): No
  • OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04): nvidia-docker with nvidia/cuda 10 and cuDNN 7
  • TensorFlow installed from (source or binary): binary
  • TensorFlow version (use command below): 1.14.0
  • Bazel version (if compiling from source): N/A
  • CUDA/cuDNN version: 7
  • GPU model and memory: GTX 1080 8GB
  • Exact command to reproduce: ?
Describe the problem

When training with multiple GPUs, GPU 0 is being utilized while utilization of all other GPUs sit at 0%. I believe the desired behavior is that more GPUs would offer some performance advantage over a single GPU

Source code / logs

models/research/object-detection/legacy/train.py

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