[Feature Request]: Job Monitors - GPU

[nickdollimount]

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What is your feature request?

Is it possible to add a GPU job monitor? Since recently using xyOps for video file conversion automation, this would be neat to have included.

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[jhuckaby]

Great feature request, thanks! This is a big one.

I suspect I will only be able to add this to the server-level monitors, not the job monitors, because the job monitors grab metrics "per process", and I don't think there are any universal APIs for getting GPU usage per process (but I will look into it).

Yeah, it is what I feared:

https://systeminformation.io/graphics.html

The API only grabs GPU usage metrics on a "whole machine" level, not a process level, so I won't be able to correlate the usage with a process (and thus, with a job).

Also, it supports ONLY NVIDIA GPUs, and nothing else 😞

I can try to add this at the server level, but it looks like it might even need an external utility added (nvidia-smi). Sigh... that is not great.

[nickdollimount]

I actually switched to an AMD card just after Christmas so that wouldn't even work for me 😆 A quick search gave me this result that might be something? I can't do much digging at the moment though...

DRM Client Usage Stats: Modern Linux kernels (6.19+) include standardized keys in the DRM interface for reporting per-client/per-process GPU usage.

[jhuckaby]

Thanks! I have no idea what "DRM" is, but I will do some research.

[nickdollimount]

Me neither! Lol