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Persistence Mode (Legacy)#

Persistence Mode is the term for a user-settable driver property that keeps a target GPU initialized even when no clients are connected to it. This solution is near end-of-life and will be eventually deprecated in favor of the Persistence Daemon.

Persistence mode can be set using nvidia-smi or programmaticaly via the NVML API.

To enable persistence mode using nvidia-smi (as root):

nvidia-smi -i <target gpu> -pm ENABLED
   Enabled persistence mode for GPU <target gpu>.
   All done.

To view current persistence mode using nvidia-smi:

nvidia-smi -i <target gpu> - q
    ==============NVSMI LOG==============

    Timestamp                           : ----
    Driver Version                      : ----

    Attached GPUs                       : ----
    GPU 0000:01:00.0
        Product Name                    : ----
        Display Mode                    : ----
        Display Active                  : ----
        Persistence Mode                : Enabled
        Accounting Mode                 : ----
        ...

Supported Environments#

  • Drivers: All shipping driver versions

  • OSes: All standard driver-supported Linux platforms

  • GPUs: All shipping Data Center, Quadro and GRID products

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