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+#   Copyright (c) 2018 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import paddle
+import paddle.fluid as fluid
+import contextlib
+import unittest
+
+
+def train_simulator(use_cuda, test_batch_size=10):
+    if test_batch_size <= 0:
+        raise ValueError("batch_size should be a positive integeral value, "
+                         "but got batch_size={}".format(test_batch_size))
+
+    x = fluid.layers.data(name='x', shape=[13], dtype='float32')
+    y_predict = fluid.layers.fc(input=x, size=1, act=None)
+    y = fluid.layers.data(name='y', shape=[1], dtype='float32')
+
+    cost = fluid.layers.square_error_cost(input=y_predict, label=y)
+    avg_cost = fluid.layers.mean(cost)
+
+    sgd_optimizer = fluid.optimizer.SGD(learning_rate=0.001)
+    sgd_optimizer.minimize(avg_cost)
+
+    train_reader = paddle.batch(
+        paddle.reader.shuffle(
+            paddle.dataset.uci_housing.train(), buf_size=500),
+        batch_size=test_batch_size)
+
+    place = fluid.CUDAPlace(0) if use_cuda else fluid.CPUPlace()
+    exe = fluid.Executor(place)
+
+    lower_usage, upper_usage, unit = fluid.contrib.memory_usage(
+        fluid.default_main_program(), batch_size=test_batch_size)
+
+    print("memory usage is about %.3f - %.3f %s" %
+          (lower_usage, upper_usage, unit))
+
+
+class TestMemoryUsage(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_cpu(self):
+        with self.program_scope_guard():
+            train_simulator(use_cuda=False)
+
+    def test_cpu_with_unit_KB(self):
+        with self.program_scope_guard():
+            train_simulator(use_cuda=False, test_batch_size=1000)
+
+    def test_cpu_with_unit_MB(self):
+        with self.program_scope_guard():
+            train_simulator(use_cuda=False, test_batch_size=100000)
+
+    def test_cuda(self):
+        with self.program_scope_guard():
+            train_simulator(use_cuda=True)
+
+    @contextlib.contextmanager
+    def program_scope_guard(self):
+        prog = fluid.Program()
+        startup_prog = fluid.Program()
+        scope = fluid.core.Scope()
+        with fluid.scope_guard(scope):
+            with fluid.program_guard(prog, startup_prog):
+                yield
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()