Jetson nsight system

This page describes how to use Nsight System on Jetson L4T system

Installation

Install NS on x86 Linux Host

1. Install Nsight System via SDKManager

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  Step#1: Select "Host Machine"

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  Step#2: Install "NVIDIA Nsight Systems"

Just click Continue to install Nsight System on x86 Linux System.

2. Verify Installation
After installation is done, you can open it with "nsight-sys" command as below.

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Install NS on Jetson Device

Note: on the newly installed Jetson system, there is not Nsight System on it.
Installation Steps:

1. On x86, launch the Nsight system installed via SDKManager as described above
2. In Nsight System, create a new project, and connect to Jetson device as below, this step will install the Nsight target binaries ontO Jetson device

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After installation, nsys locates under /opt/nvidia/nsight_systems/ .

Profile

Remote Profile (UI)

User can run Nsight System on Host and remotely profile the application running on Jetson. User can select several options to enable the corresponding proiling.

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Local Profile

After User can run the command to generate the profiling log () $ sudo /opt/nvidia/nsight_systems/nsys profile -t cuda,nvtx,nvmedia --accelerator-trace=nvmedia --show-output=true --force-overwrite=true --delay=20 --duration=90 --output=%p /usr/src/tensorrt/bin/trtexec --loadEngine=yolo_dla_0_bs20.engine --useDLACore=0 --batch=20 --streams=1 --workspace=256M