[BUG REPORT] `nvidia-smi -a` doesn't work on certain GPUs

[artem]

Licaon said one has to hack drivers not this utility.

[Licaon]

285.03 SMI reports memory usage of apps running in the system too, with bogus 2918928198219 like numbers... fun... not...

[Dragoran]

Originally Posted by Licaon

285.03 SMI reports memory usage of apps running in the system too, with bogus 2918928198219 like numbers... fun... not...

It just shows the memory used by all apps combined here which is correct (and also no reason to not show it because it is very easy to do using GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info)

[Psp]

Hi guys,
I've the same issue, with 270/275/280 drivers, on GTX295 and GTX580.

That's annoying because I need the GPU utilization value for a script, because I'm using 2 GTX295 and 4 GTX580.

We need values !

[Licaon]

Originally Posted by Dragoran

It just shows the memory used by all apps combined here which is correct (and also no reason to not show it because it is very easy to do using GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info)

oh, right really useful:

==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp : Wed Aug 31 19:28:16 2011
Driver Version : 285.03
Attached GPUs : 1
-----8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<------
Compute Processes
Not Supported
12. migration/1
Used GPU Memory : 134214407 MB
12. migration/1
Used GPU Memory : 134214407 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134061514 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 29 MB
3. ksoftirqd/0
Used GPU Memory : 3840 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 0 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134214407 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134214407 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134061512 MB
2. kthreadd
Used GPU Memory : 134061511 MB
2. kthreadd
Used GPU Memory : 134061514 MB
2. kthreadd
Used GPU Memory : 134061511 MB
2. kthreadd
Used GPU Memory : 134061511 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 4 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 775 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 0 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134061523 MB
10. rcun1
Used GPU Memory : 7 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134061521 MB
17. migration/2
Used GPU Memory : 17 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 0 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 134061523 MB
1. systemd
Used GPU Memory : 4 MB
8. rcun0
Used GPU Memory : 0 MB

mmmmnot