https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427603
--- Comment #17 from Mathias Homann <mathias.hom...@opensuse.org> --- (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... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
