Notebook stuck on "Initializing" when using GPU backend

Question

I frequently get stuck with the runtime status "Initializing" when opening Google Colab notebooks using GPUs.

Are other people having this problem? Is it from a shortage of GPUs in the runtime cluster? Has anyone found a better solution than just coming back later?

Answer 1

This helped me: click on 'Runtime' tab, click on 'Restart runtime...'

Answer 2

As of now, I think best way to over-ride this problem. is by switching between gpu runtime. Forcing it to look for a free instance.

[Click on the 'Runtime' tab. Click on 'Change runtime type'. Under hardware accelerator select 'GPU']