When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator?

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CUDA memory fragmentation occurs when certain allocation patterns prevent the allocator from serving requests, even with available free space, due to its internal implementation.

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When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator?

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