Nvidia-smi uses all of ram and swap

Hi all,

This was an issue with our nvidia-persistenced service on the latest Debian and Ubuntu test images. Engineering has identified the problem and submitted a fix. We have verified the fix on our systems.

Unfortunately, the fix is high-risk and requires a full QA test cycle at our end. This fix will be available in a future production branch.

Setting a lower limit for maximum number of open file descriptors can also be used as a potential workaround until the fix is available :-
# ulimit -Hn 16777216 or # ulimit -Hn 524288 instead of the current default value of 1073741816 (on Debian test, Ubuntu 24.10 nightly).

I will update this thread when the fix is available on a release driver.

Thank you

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