nvidia-smi not found on Drive PX2

When I run ‘nvidia-smi’ in terminal, it returns the error message as below:

-bash: nvidia-smi: command not found

However, when I run ./deviceQuery in /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery , it can display my GPUs, as below:


CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)

Detected 2 CUDA Capable device(s)

Device 0: “GP106”
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 8.0 / 8.0
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 6.1
Total amount of global memory: 3840 MBytes (4026466304 bytes)
( 9) Multiprocessors, (128) CUDA Cores/MP: 1152 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1290 MHz (1.29 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 3003 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 128-bit
L2 Cache Size: 1048576 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 2048
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 2 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 4 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

Device 1: “GP10B”
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 8.0 / 8.0
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 6.2
Total amount of global memory: 6660 MBytes (6983639040 bytes)
( 2) Multiprocessors, (128) CUDA Cores/MP: 256 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1275 MHz (1.27 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 1600 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 128-bit
L2 Cache Size: 524288 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 32768
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 2048
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 1 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: Yes
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 0 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

Peer access from GP106 (GPU0) → GP10B (GPU1) : No
Peer access from GP10B (GPU1) → GP106 (GPU0) : No


When I run sample applications in Driveworks, there are no error messages as well and it seems the GPUs are working normally.

So, the question is: Why nvidia-smi is not avaiable on DrivePX2?, if it is a driver problem, why cuda can be running without issuing error messages?

Thanks very much and looking forward to any suggestions.

Best regards,

Dear jinlingge,

Unfortunately, DPX2 do not support nvidia-smi but you can monitor CPU/GPU usage with below command. Thanks.

$sudo tegrastats

Thanks Steve, good to know.