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After months of investigation, I finally find the root cause is that NCCL 2.19 will turn on virtual memory by default, which costs memory during cudagraph capture.

Per the documentation:

NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE
(since 2.18)

Use CUDA cuMem* functions to allocate memory in NCCL.

Values accepted
0 or 1. Default is 0 in 2.18 (disabled); since 2.19 this feature is auto-enabled by default if the system supports it (NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE can still be used to override the autodetection).

The transition happens right in nccl 2.19, where this feature becomes on by default. And vLLM, very unfortunately, hits exactly the problem when we upgrade to pytorch 2.2.

The solution is simple, just adding a new environment variable, and it's fine. We can use the nccl library brought by pytorch. And we don't need to ship vllm-nccl anymore.

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