Unable to see processes with nvidia-smi inside container

[tomdaley92]

Super minor issue as I can see the Plex transcode PIDs if I run nvidia-smi on the host (outside the container)

NVIDIA/nvidia-docker#476

As a workaround you pass the --pid=host flag to a docker run command.

For example:

docker run --rm --gpus all --pid=host nvidia/cuda:11.0-base nvidia-smi

Just note that every container will see the same process list, there is no isolation of being able to only see the processes which pertain to the container you are in.

Is there an equivalent --pid=host flag for the Docker Compose File Specification, and is it compatible with Docker Swarm? If so this would be trivial to correct.

[tomdaley92]

Found it: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3/#pid

I'm assuming this works on Docker Swarm, since there is no note about it not working specifically in Swarm Mode, like some of the other sections do.

Now would that have any negative consequences?

[tomdaley92]

Well that didn't work :( I should have done a little more research

docker/docs#5624