Scipy installation using pip has been killed on Google cloud instance

Question

I am new to google clouud and I'm trying to install scipy on my google cloud instance.

When I'm executing the following command on google cloud shell in order to install scipy but the process of installation has been killed.

Command for installation

pip install scipy

During the installation I'm getting the following message.

Collecting scipy
Downloading scipy-0.19.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (45.0MB)
99% |████████████████████████████████| 45.0MB 46.8MB/s eta 0:00:01Killed

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Try the following command:

pip --no-cache-dir install scipy

Depending on your Google Cloud VM settings installing scipy in a limited memory environment can cause problems. It seems like pip is trying to read in the complete file into memory before caching it. By running the command stated above you ask pip to avoid caching which should be the solution for the process being killed at 99%.