gfxtop - a linux application to measure graphics card load?

[Robin Paulson]

we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for measuring
what the graphics card is doing?

pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is
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[Nick Rout]

Post by Robin Paulson
we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for measuring
what the graphics card is doing?
pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is

I think for appropriate cards there is nvidia-settings, which might
have some stats. It certainly reports the GPU temperature, which gives
a fair idea of how hard it is working :)

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[Oliver]

Post by Nick Rout

Post by Robin Paulson
we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for measuring
what the graphics card is doing?
pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is

I think for appropriate cards there is nvidia-settings, which might
have some stats. It certainly reports the GPU temperature, which gives
a fair idea of how hard it is working :)
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I use aticonfig for my ATI card to measure temperature and load. It can
also control the fan which is nice.

HTH.
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[Simon Bridge]

Post by Oliver

Post by Nick Rout

Post by Robin Paulson
we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for measuring
what the graphics card is doing?
pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is

I think for appropriate cards there is nvidia-settings, which might
have some stats. It certainly reports the GPU temperature, which gives
a fair idea of how hard it is working :)
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I use aticonfig for my ATI card to measure temperature and load. It can
also control the fan which is nice.

nvidia
http://www.question-defense.com/2010/03/22/gpu-linux-shell-temp-get-nvidia-gpu-temperatures-via-linux-cli

... it does seem to be a matter of using the manfacturers tools for most
people - for eg. intel-gpu-tool package in maverick. I suspect it is
possible to do this more generically though:

http://superuser.com/questions/62233/cpu-hdd-gpu-temperture-monitor-ubuntu
... basically, use the generic sensors from the repos.





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[Vik Olliver]

Post by Nick Rout

Post by Robin Paulson
we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for measuring
what the graphics card is doing?
pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is

I think for appropriate cards there is nvidia-settings, which might
have some stats. It certainly reports the GPU temperature, which gives
a fair idea of how hard it is working :)

glxgears frames-per-second seems to be a standard speed test of sorts.

But I remember the Doom-mark benchtests :)

Vik :v)

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[Dagan McGregor]

Post by Vik Olliver

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Robin Paulson

Post by Robin Paulson
we have (cpu)top, iotop, nettop, and i'm sure others to measure load
on various parts of a system. so, is there an equivalent for
measuring
what the graphics card is doing?
pretty pictures/charts a bonus, but cli will do fine if that's all there is

I think for appropriate cards there is nvidia-settings, which might
have some stats. It certainly reports the GPU temperature, which gives
a fair idea of how hard it is working :)

glxgears frames-per-second seems to be a standard speed test of sorts.
But I remember the Doom-mark benchtests :)

It really does depend on whether you're wanting to measure the
performance real-time while doing a particular action (eg a heat monitor
widget on the desktop) or an overall system benchmark.

For the overall system benchmark, I would take a look at
openbenchmarking.org and http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/

For the real-time monitoring I can only think that the usual sensor
apps would do the job.

Dagan

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