System Monitor

[DracoTB]

So, I'm using System Monitor to check what resources my applications et al are using but have come across a slight snag. None of the resources that it monitors includes the includes the GPU and, well, the graphics card in general.

Are there any plug ins for System Monitor that will do so or any applications at all?

[Rog131]

Re: System Monitor

Your hardware (GPU) ?

A plasmoid script (ATI/catalyst driver) > pyATImonitor

There are several at the (GPU/driver) > KDE-look / Karamba.

[DracoTB]

Re: System Monitor

Your hardware (GPU) ?

A plasmoid script (ATI/catalyst driver) > pyATImonitor

That's what I'm looking for just for nVidia. Still looking through that site.

[dibl]

Re: System Monitor

I'm using Conky for that. Make sure you install nvclock. To check manually,

nvclock -T

in the Konsole should show it.

I think gkrellm will show GPU temps also.

[DracoTB]

Re: System Monitor

Not interested in temps. I'm specifically looking for GPU loading and video card RAM usage.

What is Conky?

[Snowhog]

Re: System Monitor

Conky - Home

[dibl]

Re: System Monitor

I'm specifically looking for GPU loading and video card RAM usage.

Hmmmmm. I have never heard of a capability to do that, in Linux (and I don't pay much attention to what goes on in Windows). I just popped open the nvidia-settings utility, and it does not show GPU loading, or video RAM utilization on my GTX 260. AFAIK nvclock does not output those parameters, either. Are you sure it is even possible -- where are those metrics coming from?

[DracoTB]

Re: System Monitor

I was asking if there were any such. Oh, well, looks like a dead end

[Ole Juul]

Re: System Monitor

dibl has a good point:

Are you sure it is even possible -- where are those metrics coming from?

But why not? It seems to me that with all the work that is now done by the GPU one might at least want to monitor usage, like on the CPU. Hopefully someone will have some more ideas here.

[DracoTB]

Re: System Monitor

dibl has a good point:

Are you sure it is even possible -- where are those metrics coming from?

But why not? It seems to me that with all the work that is now done by the GPU one might at least want to monitor usage, like on the CPU. Hopefully someone will have some more ideas here.

It would probably need to be in the drivers and even possibly done by the GPU itself. It would put a little extra weight on the GPU but considering the power of modern GPUs I don't think anyone would actually notice.

I wanted to check to see if the full power of my graphics card was being utilised as one of the Windows games I play (well, would play if it worked properly under WINE) reports it has having only 64MB instead of the 512MB that it actually has.

[skunk]

Re: System Monitor

nvclock -i

shows all sorts of interesting info about your nvidia card, including amount of memory on the card.

[DracoTB]

Re: System Monitor

nvclock -i

shows all sorts of interesting info about your nvidia card, including amount of memory on the card.

But does it tell you how much of the video memory is being used?

[dibl]

Re: System Monitor

But does it tell you how much of the video memory is being used?

Nope. Here is mine:

dibl@karmic:~$ nvclock -i
-- General info --   
Card:      nvidia GeForce GTX 260
Architecture:  GT200 B1       
PCI id:     0x5e2         
GPU clock:   300.856 MHz
Bustype:    PCI-Express

-- Shader info --
Clock: 1296.000 MHz
Stream units: 216 (11111111b)
ROP units: 28 (01111111b)
-- Memory info --
Amount:     896 MB
Type:      448 bit DDR3
Clock:     297.000 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate:  16X
Maximum rate:  16X

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: Analog Devices ADT7473
Board temperature: 41C
GPU temperature: 49C
Fanspeed: 326 RPM
Fanspeed mode: manual
PWM duty cycle: 40.0%

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 62.00.38.00.50
Signon message: GT200 P654 SKU 0051 VGA BIOS
Performance level 0: gpu 300MHz/shader 600MHz/memory 100MHz/1.05V/100%
Performance level 1: gpu 400MHz/shader 800MHz/memory 300MHz/1.05V/100%
Performance level 2: gpu 626MHz/shader 1350MHz/memory 1053MHz/1.12V/100%
VID mask: 7
Voltage level 0: 1.05V, VID: 1
Voltage level 1: 1.06V, VID: 2
Voltage level 2: 1.12V, VID: 4