nvtop VS vdpau-va-driver-vp9

If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.

Did you run any of the "dashboards" while executing the test? Like [NvTop](https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop)

If you plan on making a system monitor/task manager, could you please make it display actual useful information and not just extremely basic stats like most do now. GNOME and KDE both have overly simple applications for this, that just show the CPU and memory utilisation, and it makes finding information like the processor frequency and temperature so much more difficult. On Windows, for example, the task manager performance tab shows a much greater amount of information for each system component, not just total utilisation. GPU usage is also never shown in any of the popular system monitors, something that's probably important for a lot of users. It's not even necessarily impossible since projects such as nvtop are able to. I do hope we'll eventually get a much better GUI program for monitoring our system in Linux.

Can't nvtop do that?

I'm looking for an alternative to nvtop. It's a Ncidia monitoring tool for Linux. You can easily monitor or kill processes via terminal. I used the nvidia-smi command on windows commanline, but it gives very little information.

Try monitoring your VRAM using nvtop (or something), then run training, if the VRAM maxed, training stopped, then VRAM dropped, then it's 100% not enough VRAM.

The "nv" in "nvtop" originally stood for NVidia, and was only changed to Neat Videocard last year when it added support for AMD cards (after having been "NVidia TOP" for 5 years!) https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop/commit/fe28a13c78ddb395245f86bc0a33e6a5978f594a

I tried this https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9 but i didn't have chromium-vaapi also i tried all tricks from this thread https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-enable-hardware-video-acceleration-video-decode-in-google-chrome-brave-vivaldi-and-opera-browsers/51895

There is a fork that supports VP9, the original supports h264 at best.

That translation layer for vp9 support completely broke in chrome until very recently, and still doesn't work under Firefox to my knowledge. Additionally it's not in any official repo, requiring the user to compile it themselves. This is a horrible user experience and is simply unacceptable.

Built and installed this driver as well as all of the tools to build it: https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9

- https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-ubuntu-build/issues/102 - https://github.com/xtknight/vdpau-va-driver-vp9/issues/13