luisbocanegra / plasma-intel-gpu-monitor

KDE Plasma Widget that displays Intel GPU usage including wether or not video acceleration is being used.

Intel GPU Monitor plasmoid

Plasma Widget that displays Intel GPU usage including wether or not video acceleration is being used

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Requirements

• intel-gpu-tools package

• Giving intel_gpu_top the ability to use performance monitoring features using sudo setcap cap_perfmon=+ep /usr/bin/intel_gpu_top every reboot, or you can use the following Systemd Unit

1. Create /etc/systemd/system/setcap_intel_gpu_top.service with the following:

   [Unit]
   Description=Set intel_gpu_top perfmon capabilities
   After=graphical.target
   
   [Service]
   ExecStart=/sbin/setcap cap_perfmon=+ep /usr/bin/intel_gpu_top
   Type=oneshot
   RemainAfterExit=yes
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=graphical.target

2. Start & enable the service

   sudo systemctl enable --now setcap_intel_gpu_top.service

3. In systems such as Ubuntu, performance events monitoring are disabled by default. For intel_gpu_top to work without root you need to set /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to 2. Otherwise you may get an error like this:

    $ intel_gpu_top
    Failed to initialize PMU! (Permission denied)
    ...

   To solve this, lower the paranoid level to 2 by running sudo sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid=2

   • To make it permanent create the file /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl-paranoid.conf with the following content

     kernel.perf_event_paranoid = 2

   Finally, run intel_gpu_top to verify it works

Current & planned features

• Show General usage
  • Load, Frequency, Power consumption
  • Usage per engine (Render/3D, Video & VideoEnhance, Blitter)
• Show top clients (program names) per engine
  • Custom max clients (program names) to show in engine utilization
• GPU selection
• Custom icons support
• Show current engine load
  • With badge
  • With color dot
• Custom engine utilization threshold to update icons
• Show intel_gpu_top isn't available or doesn't have perfmon capabilities set

Installing

• Install from KDE Store or use Get new widgets..
  • Plasma 5 version
  • Plasma 6 version

Manual install

Important

The main branch was updated to support Plasma 6, to install from source in plasma 5 run git checkout kf5 before the install script.

1. Install these dependencies (please let me know if I missed or added something unnecessary)

   cmake extra-cmake-modules libplasma intel-gpu-tools

2. Run ./install.sh

Resources

• IGT GPU Tools
• Perf events and tool security — The Linux Kernel documentation
• capabilities(7) - overview of Linux capabilities — Linux manual page
• setcap(8) - set file capabilities — Linux manual page
• No API/user accessible sysfs files to get GPU stats - drm/intel/issues

Credits

• Google LLC. / Pictogrammers for the panel icons

plasma-intel-gpu-monitor's Issues

Plasma 6 support

Porting Plasmoids to KF6

intel-gpu-monitor not detecting gpu

i installed intel-gpu-monitor on Kali GNU/Linux Rolling x86_64 and its not detecting the gpu

Modify kernel.perf_event_paranoid parameter

In some distros such as Ubuntu, you have to set also the kernel.perf_event_paranoid parameter to 0 by the command sysctl or editing the sysctl.conf file; otherwise intel_gpu_tools cannot be executed with no sudo. Could you adding it to the readme file? Anyway, thanks for this work!