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PMDANVIDIA(1) General Commands Manual PMDANVIDIA(1)
pmdanvidia - nvidia gpu metrics domain agent (PMDA)
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/pmdanvidia [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-t
interval]
pmdanvidia is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which
extracts performance metrics describing the metrics available on
NVIDIA GPU cards via the NVML library.
The nvidia PMDA exports metrics that measure gpu activity, memory
utilization, fan speed, etc on NVIDIA Tesla and Quadro cards.
Metrics are unlikely to be available for consumer class cards.
A brief description of the pmdanvidia command line options
follows:
-d It is absolutely crucial that the performance metrics domain
number specified here is unique and consistent. That is,
domain should be different for every PMDA on the one host,
and the same domain number should be used for the same PMDA
on all hosts.
-l Location of the log file. By default, a log file named
nvidia.log is written in the current directory of pmcd(1)
when pmdanvidia is started, i.e. $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd. If the
log file cannot be created or is not writable, output is
written to the standard error instead.
-t Enables and sets a sampling interval for automatic
refreshing of metric values. The functionality is disabled
by default, however this option allows a time interval to be
specified on which all values are sampled - this has the
effect of constantly updating the accumulating metrics, with
the goal of assisting client tools such as pcp-atop(1) and
pmlogger(1) to observe sub-sample time changes in GPU and
process state. Typically these tools have longer sampling
intervals, and can thus 'miss' activity happening during
their sampling interval.
The nvidia PMDA is not installed and available by default. If
you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia
# ./Remove
If you want to establish access to the names, help text and
values for the nvidia performance metrics once more, after
removal, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia
# ./Install
pmdanvidia is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed
directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the
agent is installed or removed.
$PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH
command line options used to launch pmdanvidia
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/help
default help text file for the nvidia metrics
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/Install
installation script for the pmdanvidia agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/Remove
undo installation script for the pmdanvidia agent
$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/nvidia.log
default log file for error messages and other information
from pmdanvidia
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to
parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each
installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values
for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to
specify an alternative configuration file, as described in
pcp.conf(5).
PCPIntro(1), pcp-atop(1), pmcd(1), pmlogger(1), pcp.conf(5) and
pcp.env(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, send it to [email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2024-06-14.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMDANVIDIA(1)
Pages that refer to this page: pcp-atop(1)
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