https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427603
--- Comment #18 from Mathias Homann <mathias.hom...@opensuse.org> --- (In reply to Mathias Homann from comment #17) > (In reply to Erik Kurzinger from comment #14) > > Bar1 is the portion of video memory that can be accessed by the CPU over > > PCIe. > > > > And yes, a graphical desktop environment would be expected to utilize GPU > > memory bandwidth, but only if you're actually interacting with it. If it's > > just sitting idle then it wouldn't be surprising that nvidia-smi reportes 0% > > mem utilization. > > > > Could you try running "nvidia-smi dmon" and, moving windows around or > > activating some desktop effects? This should cause the mem and SM values to > > increase, unless there really is a bug. > > hm. > > so on my desktop pc (the one where monitoring doesn't work) I just ran > "nvidia-smi dmon" in one xterm, and then dragged another one around all over > my two screens, with the "wobbly windows when moving" effect turned up all > the way to max - and the values stayed zero. > > on the other hand, on my laptop which uses optimus technology and is set up > for prime render offloading, so to my understanding the nvidia GPU should > really not do anything unless I run a binary explicitely on that card, > nvidia-dmon reports values for sm and mem even when the thing really does > nothing, GPU-wise... so something seems to be off... ok i correct this - on my laptop nvidia-smi reports as expected. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
