tna0y / gml

Run any process with a GPU memory limit

GML - GPU memory limiter

Impose a GPU memory limit on any process.

Utility was originally designed to provide a workaround for absence of GPU memory limit in nvidia-docker but works for any process on Linux.

How it works

GML runs any command and monitors its GPU memory usage. If the limit is exceded GML sends a signal (default: SIGKILL) to the process and waits until it returns.

Install

Pre-compiled binary is available for Linux / x86_64. Install it with following commands:

curl -L -o gml https://github.com/tna0y/gml/releases/download/v0.1/gml-linux-x86_64
chmod +x gml && sudo cp gml /usr/local/bin/gml

Usage

Usage: gml [--limit LIMIT] [--signal SIGNUM] -- COMMAND
      --help            show help message
  -l, --limit string    total GPU memory limit for the command (default "1MB")
  -s, --signal string   signal that will be sent to the process if the memory exceeds the limit (default "SIGKILL")

Example

gml --limit 1GB --signal SIGINT -- ./my-gpu-app arg1 arg2