NVIDIA GPU Driver Issue: nvidia-smi Hangs After ~66 Days Uptime with Driver 570.133.20 on B200 Systems
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Summary
The article documents a specific technical issue with NVIDIA GPU drivers where the nvidia-smi command hangs indefinitely after approximately 66 days and 12 hours of uptime when using driver version 570.133.20 OpenRM on B200 systems with kernel 6.6.0. The content includes system configuration details, driver parameters, and technical debugging information showing various NVIDIA driver settings and system parameters that may be relevant to diagnosing the timeout issue.
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NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 RmLogonRC: 1 ModifyDeviceFiles: 1 DeviceFileUID: 0 DeviceFileGID: 0 DeviceFileMode: 438 InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations: 1
EnableUserNUMAManagement: 1 NvLinkDisable: 0 RmProfilingAdminOnly: 1 PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations: 0 EnableS0ixPowerManagement: 0
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