Package: nvidia-smi Version: 535.216.03-1 Severity: important Control: forwarded -1 https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-uses-all-of-ram-and-swap/295639/16
Dear maintainer, On a newly installed Debian sid system, I noted that nvidia-smi always gets stuck in the middle and consume all system RAM+SWAP before it finishes printing. This behavior is exactly the same as described in the following forum: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-uses-all-of-ram-and-swap/295639/12 In the above thread, a magic fix is provided: sudo chmod o-w /var/run/nvidia-persistenced/socket Which worked perfectly on my machine. After that, nvidia-smi can respond immediately without eating my system RAM. However this fix is just temporary. I'm using 6.11.10-amd64 kernel from the Sid snapshot in order to make wayland work. Recently it is well known that the nvidia GPUs do not play well with kernel 6.12.
