hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage Memory Reporting
Curated from Phoronix
If you manage Linux workstations running mixed CPU and GPU workloads, generic system monitors often leave you blind to which specific application is saturating your VRAM. The release of hw-monitor 0.6 addresses this gap by exposing per-process GPU memory metrics directly through DRM drivers like AMDGPU and Intel Xe. This is significant because it moves GPU observability away from coarse, system-wide averages and toward actionable, process-level granularity. For SREs and developers, this means you can finally correlate specific memory leaks or spikes to exact applications without resorting to heavy-handed external profiling tools. The tool’s ability to integrate these metrics into a lightweight desktop environment makes it a practical addition for teams debugging performance issues on Linux hosts. Consider adding this to your standard monitoring stack for any Linux node where GPU resource contention is a frequent troubleshooting variable.
For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...
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