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Bug#1092449: nvidia-smi: constant memory leak and use all RAM+SWAP; magic fix availble

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Package: nvidia-smi
Version: 535.216.03-1
Severity: important
Control: forwarded -1 https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-uses-all-of-ram-and-swap/295639/16

Dear maintainer,

On a newly installed Debian sid system, I noted that nvidia-smi
always gets stuck in the middle and consume all system RAM+SWAP
before it finishes printing.

This behavior is exactly the same as described in the following
forum:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-uses-all-of-ram-and-swap/295639/12

In the above thread, a magic fix is provided:
  sudo chmod o-w /var/run/nvidia-persistenced/socket
Which worked perfectly on my machine. After that, nvidia-smi can
respond immediately without eating my system RAM. However this fix
is just temporary.

I'm using 6.11.10-amd64 kernel from the Sid snapshot in order to
make wayland work. Recently it is well known that the nvidia GPUs
do not play well with kernel 6.12.

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Bug#1092449: nvidia-smi: constant memory leak and use all RAM+SWAP; magic fix availble "M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 00:50 +0100
  Bug#1092449: nvidia-smi: constant memory leak and use all RAM+SWAP; magic fix availble Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 09:30 +0100
    Bug#1092449: nvidia-smi: constant memory leak and use all RAM+SWAP; magic fix availble "M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org> - 2025-01-08 14:00 +0100
      Bug#1092449: nvidia-smi: constant memory leak and use all RAM+SWAP; magic fix availble Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2025-01-11 00:10 +0100

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