Model Loading and Unloading in a Loop

[Amriteshwork]

I need to load and unload the model at different points in time. when i try to load and unload the model in the loop the model does not get unloaded. Following is the code:

import spacy
import torch
import time
spacy.require_gpu()

for _ in range(10):
    print("The GPU occupied before model load: ", torch.cuda.memory_allocated())
    ner_model = spacy.load("en_core_web_trf", disable=["tagger", "parser", "attribute_ruler", "lemmatizer", "morphologizer", "senter", "textcat"])
    print("The GPU occupied after model load: ", torch.cuda.memory_allocated())
    time.sleep(10)
    del ner_model

help me to resolve this issue. this is getting frustrating...