How to make Nvidia-smi Unrestricted

[andrew_080696]

I keep getting this prompt on CMD saying “Run ‘nvidia-smi -acp UNRESTRICTED’ as root/admin to enable this option for all users.”

How do I run this program as admin and enable this unrestricted option?

[njuffa]

The message tells you exactly what to do if you want to give all users access to the application clock feature.

(1) Become the super user, e.g. with su or sudo (some versions of Linux don’t have a root account by default)
(2) Run the command: nvidia-smi -acp UNRESTRICTED

A relevant post from an NVIDIA blog:

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/increase-performance-gpu-boost-k80-autoboost/

To avoid trouble in multi-user environments, changing application clocks requires administrative privileges. However, a system administrator can relax this requirement to allow non-admin users to change application clocks by setting the application clock permissions to UNRESTRICTED using the -acp (“application clock permissions”) option to nvidia-smi.

[popularsaying]

This option is deprecated, but never mention what one can use instead of it. So, what can one use?

[Robert_Crovella]

I don’t believe there is a replacement. Some usages of nvidia-smi require root/admin privilege.

This may be of interest.