kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 Allocated GPU:0

Loading any application that uses GPU calls excessive number of times freed and allocated. Even with persistenced. Something is wrong.

Jun 14 20:43:47 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:43:51 xmg sudo[5926]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jun 14 20:44:40 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:40 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:41 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:41 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:41 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:41 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:42 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
Jun 14 20:44:42 xmg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0 (GPU-b909bbcf-2700-dce3-c390-11d51818c438) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (94.3 KB)

nvidia-persistenced only initializes nvidia-modeset on a GPU if it thinks it’s driving the Linux console. Your GPU doesn’t have a display engine, which explains why persistenced isn’t holding it open.

The fact that you’re seeing these messages so frequently indicates that something is querying /dev/nvidia-modeset every second. You might be able to use top or something to figure out what.

These “Allocated” and “Freed” messages will be removed in a future update so even if something is querying the driver frequently, it won’t produce any log spam.

I see, thank you much for the update!:)