Debian 9 nvidia-smi at boot from systemd

README.md

1. Put 'nvload.service' into /etc/systemd/system
2. chmod 664 nvload.service
3. Put 'nvsmi-load.sh' script in e.g. /usr/local/nvsmi-load.sh
4. chmod 744 nvsmi-load.sh
5. Optionally correct path to the nvsmi-load.sh From root exec cmds:
6. 'systemctl daemon-reload'
7. 'systemctl enable nvload.service'
8. To test if works exec: systemctl start nvload.service
9. Check if /tmp/nvsmi-load.log exists and have expected contetn (output of nvidia-smi and if have current date & time at header).

nvload.service

[Unit]
Description=Load nvidia-smi to prevent overheating GPU

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/nvsmi-load.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

nvsmi-load.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo -e "\n\nExecuting nvidia-smi..."
/usr/bin/nvidia-smi 1>/tmp/nvsmi-load.log
SMI_RESULT=$?
echo -e "\n"

if [ $SMI_RESULT -eq 0 ]; then
    echo -e "\e[32mnvidia-smi: EXEC OK!\e[93m\n"
    cat /tmp/nvsmi-load.log
    echo -e "\e[0m\n\n"
else
    echo -e "\e[91mERROR: $SMI_RESULT\e[0m\n\n"
fi