Nvidia DGX Station User Manual

Maintaining and Servicing the NVIDIA DGX Station
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4. Enable the cache daemon to run.
a). In a plain text editor such as vi, nano, or gedit, open the file /etc/default/
cachefilesd with sudo user privileges.
For example:
$ sudo vi /etc/default/cachefilesd
b). Uncomment the RUN=yes line.
c). Save your changes and quit the editor.
5. Configure the cache daemon by editing the cache daemon configuration file.
a). In a plain text editor such as vi, nano, or gedit, open the file /etc/
cachefilesd.conf with sudo user privileges.
For example:
$ sudo vi /etc/cachefilesd.conf
b). Set the cache directory to /raid and the FS-Cache tag to dgxcache.
dir /raid
tag dgxcache
c). Set the culling limits to values that are optimized for deep learning workloads and
provide the fastest throughput for training from large datasets.
brun 25%
bcull 15%
bstop 5%
frun 10%
fcull 7%
fstop 3%
d). Save your changes and quit the editor.
For information about all the options that you can set in this file, see the /
etc/cachefilesd.conf (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man5/
cachefilesd.conf.5.html) man page.
This example shows a complete /etc/cachefilesd.conf file for configuring the cache
daemon for the DGX Station. The LSM security context is the default security context of the
cachefilesd daemon.
###############################################################################
#
# Copyright (C) 2006,2010 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
# Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
# 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
###############################################################################
dir /raid
tag dgxcache
brun 25%
bcull 15%
bstop 5%
frun 10%
fcull 7%
fstop 3%
# Assuming you're using SELinux with the default security policy included in
# this package

Nvidia DGX Station Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	DGX Station
Category	Desktop
Language	English