Use of nvidia-smi
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Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, ...)
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64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
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Windows 7
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For MacOSX, please check
cuda-smicommand from here
In a teminal, type
nvidia-smi -l 2
or with the watch command for not fullfilling your terminal
(through Cygwin for Windows, or installable through homebrew/macports on MacOSX),
watch -d -n 2 nvidia-smi *(cuda-smi for MacOSX)*
which results in monitoring your GPU(s) usage re-newed each 2 seconds
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 387.34 Driver Version: 387.34 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Graphics Device Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 37% 53C P2 46W / 250W | 11794MiB / 12058MiB | 70% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1606 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 415MiB |
| 0 4315 G compiz 186MiB |
| 0 19879 G ...-token=<hash> 142MiB |
| 0 28315 C ...<user>/miniconda3/envs/py36/bin/python 11036MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+