Assignment exercise 7 - training takes too long

Course Q&A TensorFlow: Advanced Techniques Specialization Advanced Computer Vision with TensorFlow
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Hi, I got stuck in exercise 7 model.fit progress, it’s taking so long(almost 10 hours) to train the model.

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Is this intended or I missed something?
running on GPU.
someone got the same issue?

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No its not supposed to take that long, after all you are using already a pretrained network mobilnet with weights. Make sure you are using that network though.

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steps_per_epoch = length_of_training_dataset//BATCH_SIZE

you forgot to divide for the BATCH SIZE