Google Colaboratory: misleading information about its GPU (only 5% RAM available to some users)

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So to prevent another dozen of answers suggesting invalid in the context of this thread suggestion to !kill -9 -1, let’s close this thread:

The answer is simple:

As of this writing Google simply gives only 5% of GPU to some of us, whereas 100% to the others. Period.

dec-2019 update: The problem still exists – this question’s upvotes continue still.

mar-2019 update: A year later a Google employee @AmiF commented on the state of things, stating that the problem doesn’t exist, and anybody who seems to have this problem needs to simply reset their runtime to recover memory. Yet, the upvotes continue, which to me this tells that the problem still exists, despite @AmiF’s suggestion to the contrary.

dec-2018 update: I have a theory that Google may have a blacklist of certain accounts, or perhaps browser fingerprints, when its robots detect a non-standard behavior. It could be a total coincidence, but for quite some time I had an issue with Google Re-captcha on any website that happened to require it, where I’d have to go through dozens of puzzles before I’d be allowed through, often taking me 10+ min to accomplish. This lasted for many months. All of a sudden as of this month I get no puzzles at all and any google re-captcha gets resolved with just a single mouse click, as it used to be almost a year ago.

And why I’m telling this story? Well, because at the same time I was given 100% of the GPU RAM on Colab. That’s why my suspicion is that if you are on a theoretical Google black list then you aren’t being trusted to be given a lot of resources for free. I wonder if any of you find the same correlation between the limited GPU access and the Re-captcha nightmare. As I said, it could be totally a coincidence as well.

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