Nvtop stands for NVidia TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for NVIDIA GPUs. It can handle multiple GPUs and print information about them in a htop familiar way.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words:
- NVTOP Options and Interactive Commands
- GPU Support
- Build
- Distribution Specific Installation Process
- NVTOP Build
- Troubleshoot
- License
NVTOP has a builtin setup utility that provides a way to specialize the interface to your needs.
Simply press F2 and select the options that are the best for you.
You can save the preferences set in the setup window by pressing F12.
The preferences will be loaded the next time you run nvtop.
NVTOP comes with a manpage!
man nvtopFor quick command line arguments help
nvtop -h
nvtop --helpThe NVML library does not support some of the queries for GPUs coming before the Kepler microarchitecture. Anything starting at GeForce 600, GeForce 800M and successor should work fine. For more information about supported GPUs please take a look at the NVML documentation.
Two libraries are required in order for NVTOP to display GPU information:
- The NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) which comes with the GPU driver.
- This queries the GPU for information.
- The ncurses library driving the user interface.
- This makes the screen look beautiful.
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sudo apt install nvtop
- NVIDIA drivers (see Ubuntu Wiki or Ubuntu PPA or Debian Wiki)
- CMake, ncurses and git
sudo apt install cmake libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev git
- NVTOP
- Follow the NVTOP Build
- NVIDIA drivers, CUDA required for nvml libraries (see RPM Fusion)
- CMake, ncurses and git
sudo dnf install cmake ncurses-devel git
- NVTOP
- Follow the NVTOP Build
- NVIDIA drivers (see SUSE Support Database)
- CMake, ncurses and git
sudo zypper install cmake ncurses-devel git
- NVTOP
- Follow the NVTOP Build
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sudo pacman -S nvtop
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sudo layman -a guru && sudo emerge -av nvtop
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NVIDIA drivers (same as above)
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git clone https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop.git docker build --tag nvtop . docker run --interactive --tty --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all --pid=host nvtop
git clone https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop.git
mkdir -p nvtop/build && cd nvtop/build
cmake ..
make
# Install globally on the system
sudo make install
# Alternatively, install without privileges at a location of your choosing
# make DESTDIR="/your/install/path" installIf you use conda as environment manager and encounter an error while building nvtop, try conda deactivate before invoking cmake.
The build system supports multiple build type (e.g. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo):
- Release: Binary without debug information
- RelWithDebInfo: Binary with debug information
- Debug: Compile with warning flags and address/undefined sanitizers enabled (for development purposes)
- The plot looks bad:
- Verify that you installed the wide character version of the NCurses library (libncursesw5-dev for Debian / Ubuntu), clean the build directory and restart the build process.
- Putty: Tell putty not to lie about its capabilities (
$TERM) by setting the fieldTerminal-type stringtoputtyin the menuConnection > Data > Terminal Details.
Nvtop is licensed under the GPLV3 license or any later version. You will find a copy of the license inside the COPYING file of the repository or at the gnu website <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.