Hello,
Thanks for posting this, I thought I was going crazy. I am experiencing the same thing - I think. Did you already find a solution?
I’m running Debian testing - fully up to date and have tried both the Debian nvidia packages as well as the latest packages from nvidia’s site. Both installs have the same results.
When I run nvidia-smi it quickly uses up all of my RAM (64 GB) and is then killed - I guess by the OOM killer. I do not have swap, so it can’t fill that up.
After crashing there is a backtrace and data dump into dmesg. Running with strace also crashes and creates a log. Running with valgrind runs normally, as you said.
I’m using a GeForce RTX 3070. I just got it, so I wasn’t sure if I had misconfigured something or if something was broken on either Debian’s part or Nvidia’s part.