How to kill process on GPUs with PID in nvidia-smi using keyword?
Solution 1
You can grep python in the nvidia-smi and then pass the PID to the kill -9 command, e.g.
sudo kill -9 $( nvidia-smi | grep 'python' | sed -n 's/|\s*[0-9]\s([0-9])\s.*/\1/p' | sed '/^$/d')
Solution 2
The accepted answer doesn't work for me, probably because nvidia-smi
has different formats across different versions/hardware.
I'm using a much cleaner command:
nvidia-smi | grep 'python' | awk '{ print $3 }' | xargs -n1 kill -9
You can replace $3
in the awk expression to fit your nvidia-smi
output. It is the n-th column in which the PIDs occur.
Solution 3
Use nvidia-smi
or top command to see processes running and to kill command:
sudo kill -9 PID
Solution 4
I guess the question is already answered when nvidia-smi shows processes occupying GPU mem. For me, even though nvidia-smi wasnt showing any processes, GPU memory was being used and I wanted to kill them.
The way to go in this case was to use the fuser command to find out the processes using the particular GPU device. In my case I wanted to kill all the processes using the GPU device 3. This can be done using the command :
sudo fuser -k /dev/nvidia3
You can use -ki to kill the processes interactively.