tencent cloud

Problem Description

When using a GPU instance, if you use nvidia-smi to view the GPU status in the system, the GPU usage may be displayed as 100% while no processes are using GPU, as shown below:

Possible Causes

This may be caused by the ECC Memory Scrubbing mechanism used when the instance loads the NVIDIA driver.

Solution

Run the nvidia-smi -pm 1 command in the instance system to get the GPU Driver into the Persistence mode.

Instructions

1. Log in to the GPU instance and run the following command:

   nvidia-smi -pm 1

   
2. Run the following command to check GPU usage:

   nvidia-smi

   You will see the GPU usage is normal, as shown below: