Gnome Shell + Xorg take up to ~ 1.5GB of my GPU Memory.
Is this normal? Is there an easy way to reduce it?
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.39 Driver Version: 460.39 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Graphics Device Off | 00000000:2B:00.0 On | N/A |
| 30% 33C P3 33W / 170W | 1857MiB / 12050MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 17004 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 168MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 17238 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 1171MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 17351 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 490MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 19632 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 19730 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 20241 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 20416 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 20532 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 20724 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2MiB |
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I would like to use my GPU memory for Deep Learning and thus would like to try to reduce the usage.
Appreciate any pointers here.
