Avoid tensorflow print on standard error

Question

anyone knows if there is a method to prevent tensorflow from polluting standard error with gpus' memory allocation log?. I noted that when the following command is executed:

with tf.Session() as sess:

tensorflow prints on standard error a log about memory and gpu resources allocation. Something like:

I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/local_device.cc:25] Local device intra op parallelism threads: 48
Graphics Device pciBusID 0000:02:00.0
Free memory: 11.75GiB
...

For important reasons, I wanna avoid this printing.

Answer 1

This was recently fixed, and should be available if you upgrade to TensorFlow 0.12 or later.

To disable all logging output from TensorFlow, set the following environment variable before launching Python:

$ export TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=3
$ python ...

You can also adjust the verbosity by changing the value of TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL:

• 0 = all messages are logged (default behavior)
• 1 = INFO messages are not printed
• 2 = INFO and WARNING messages are not printed
• 3 = INFO, WARNING, and ERROR messages are not printed