checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

graysky · 2010-10-23 12:13:57

It possible to check the GPU load on nVidia GPU via some program akin to htop? I've looked high and low but haven't found anything.

Last edited by graysky (2010-10-23 14:17:59)

hume's doona · 2010-10-23 12:17:45

in nvidia-settings i think it's the bottom tab

less accurate, but easier is conky-nv or conky-lua-nv from the aur

graysky · 2010-10-23 12:37:16

@hd - thanks for the suggestion. I'm not seeing the option for load in nvidia-settings at all but am intregued by the conky-nvidia package. I have it installed now but am unsure how to code a line to display GPU load. The closest I could find about nvidia for conky variable is:

http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

nvidia threshold Nvidia graficcard support for the XNVCtrl library. Each option can be shortened to the least significant part. Temperatures are printed as float, all other values as integer.
* threshold - The thresholdtemperature at which the gpu slows down
* temp - Gives the gpu current temperature
* ambient - Gives current air temperature near GPU case
* gpufreq - Gives the current gpu frequency
* memfreq - Gives the current mem frequency
* imagequality - Which imagequality should be chosen by OpenGL applications

Any info you can provide is appreciated! Maybe a ~/.conkyrc that has this enabled?

hume's doona · 2010-10-23 13:01:02

hmm, I'm no on my nvidia box, so you may be right. I don't do a great deal of graphics instensive stuff and can't remember the last time I had to monitor it, so I may be mistaken and just thinking of temp etc [which is a pretty good indicator anyway as far as I'm aware]

sorry if that was a dud steer, I'll try to remember to check my other box later to see if I do have a fix in there somewhere

Foucault · 2010-10-23 13:57:08

If I understand correctly, I think that "nvidia-smi -a" provides that kind of output (temperature, fan speed, gpu core and memory utilization).

Last edited by Foucault (2010-10-23 13:57:42)

graysky · 2010-10-23 14:17:31

Foucault wrote:

If I understand correctly, I think that "nvidia-smi -a" provides that kind of output (temperature, fan speed, gpu core and memory utilization).

Nice! This does it, thank you!

$ nvidia-smi -a

==============NVSMI LOG==============


Timestamp            : Sat Oct 23 10:17:01 2010

Driver Version            : 260.19.12

GPU 0:
    Product Name        : GeForce 8400 GS
    PCI Device/Vendor ID    : 6e410de
    PCI Location ID        : 0:1:0
    Display            : Connected
    Temperature        : 41 C
    Utilization
        GPU            : 0%
        Memory        : 8%

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#1 2010-10-23 12:13:57

checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

#2 2010-10-23 12:17:45

Re: checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

#3 2010-10-23 12:37:16

Re: checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

#4 2010-10-23 13:01:02

Re: checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

#5 2010-10-23 13:57:08

Re: checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

#6 2010-10-23 14:17:31

Re: checking GPU load on nVidia hardware? [solved]

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