Btop for DGX Spark

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Hi DGX Spark users,

I am sharing a modified version of btop tailored for DGX Spark. I decided to fork and modify the project because the standard version does not display GPU resource information on aarch64 architectures like the DGX Spark.

Key Changes:

  • Aarch64 GPU Support: The upstream Makefile restricts GPU support to x86_64 only. I updated it to enable on aarch64 platforms.

  • GCC 13 Compatibility: The latest btop requires GCC 14+ due to C++23 (std::ranges::to) usage. I refactored this to C++20 compatible logic, allowing successful builds on GCC 13.x environments commonly used on these systems.

Repository:

🔗 GitHub - haven-jeon/btop: A monitor of resources for DGX Spark

Quick Start:

Bash

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/haven-jeon/btop.git
cd btop

# sudo apt install lowdown
# Build (Automatically detects aarch64 and enables GPU support)
gmake -j$(nproc)

# Install
sudo gmake install

After installation, run btop and press 5 to view the GPU metrics.

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Hope this helps others working on DGX Spark.

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THANK YOU OMG

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This is my favourite sanity check tool on all Linux boxes, so thank you very much.

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Hope you can PR it back to btop so it ships with support in the future

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This is great! I’ve been enjoying dxgtop which I found in this forum a while back, but I’m glad to have another view into my system!