Package: nvidia-persistenced Version: 390.25-1
Hello, nVidia made it clear to us that nvidia-persistenced *really* should be running on (headless/no X server) CUDA nodes, because it does *more* than just keep the driver "up" (in particular, it fixes erroneous outputs from nvidia-smi; e.g. wrong GPU perf-state/load/memory accross multi-GPU setups). I see the current (Stretch) and latest (Unstable) Debian packaging of nvidia-persistenced does not enable the binary as a daemon (but merely provides example sysv/systemd/upstart scripts, in /usr/share/doc). Is there a reason the Debian package does not enable this binary as a (sysv+systemd) daemon, along creating the ad-hoc system user (e.g. "nvpd") for it ? If not, could this be looked into (I can provide input based on my own re-packaging of the daemon) ? Thanks for your work and best regards, Cédric -- Cédric Dufour @ Idiap Research Institute
