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GPU processes are not visible while running nvidia-smi inside a pod¶

Q: When running the nvidia-smi command inside a GPU-utilizing pod, no GPU process information is visible in the full-card mode and vGPU mode.

A: Due to PID namespace isolation, GPU processes are not visible inside the Pod. To view GPU processes, you can use one of the following methods:

• Configure the workload using the GPU with hostPID: true to enable viewing PIDs on the host.
• Run the nvidia-smi command in the driver pod of the gpu-operator to view processes.
• Run the chroot /run/nvidia/driver nvidia-smi command on the host to view processes.

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