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if you append compute() it should not be a lazy operation. But my advice is like user only.

El mié., 20 may. 2020 a las 19:51, Rob Hetland (notifications@github.com) escribió:

I have a large DataSet, including these DataArrays:

<xarray.DataArray 'temp' (ocean_time: 1325, s_rho: 30, eta_rho: 602, xi_rho: 677)> dask.array<concatenate, shape=(1325, 30, 602, 677), dtype=float32, chunksize=(1, 1, 602, 677)>

and

<xarray.DataArray 'zeta' (ocean_time: 1325, eta_rho: 602, xi_rho: 677)> dask.array<concatenate, shape=(1325, 602, 677), dtype=float32, chunksize=(1, 602, 677)>

(The coordinates and attributes excluded for brevity, but they match in the right ways.)

When I do math operations with the 4D DataArray (temp) and 3D DataArray (zeta), no problem:

ds.zeta * ds.temp

<xarray.DataArray (ocean_time: 1325, eta_rho: 602, xi_rho: 677, s_rho: 30)> dask.array<mul, shape=(1325, 602, 677, 30), dtype=float32, chunksize=(1, 602, 677, 1)>

This returns an object instantly, and the result is lazily evaluated. However, if I just try to add temp to itself,

ds.temp + ds.temp

this fails (eventually) as my medium sized computer runs out of memory, since it starts to evaluate the numbers as if I did a compute() or asked for the values. Note 2ds.temp or ds.temp*2 is lazily evaluated, and returns an object instantly. Chunk size does not seem to be an issue, as I have tried a number of reasonable choices without success.

Why can't such simple math operations between two large arrays also be lazily evaluated?

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