Bug#915381: Shouldn't nvidia-persistenced be daemonized (using Debian standard way to do so) ?

[Cédric Dufour - Idiap Research Institute]

Package: nvidia-persistenced
Version: 390.25-1


Hello,

nVidia made it clear to us that nvidia-persistenced *really* should be running on (headless/no X server) CUDA nodes, because it does *more* than just keep the driver "up" (in particular, it fixes erroneous outputs from nvidia-smi; e.g. wrong GPU perf-state/load/memory accross multi-GPU setups).

I see the current (Stretch) and latest (Unstable) Debian packaging of nvidia-persistenced does not enable the binary as a daemon (but merely provides example sysv/systemd/upstart scripts, in /usr/share/doc).

Is there a reason the Debian package does not enable this binary as a (sysv+systemd) daemon, along creating the ad-hoc system user (e.g. "nvpd") for it ?
If not, could this be looked into (I can provide input based on my own re-packaging of the daemon) ?

Thanks for your work and best regards,

Cédric

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Cédric Dufour @ Idiap Research Institute