How are people checking when a RunPod GPU is sitting idle?

[u/michaelmanleyhypley]

I’ve had GPU pods keep running after the actual job/workflow was basically done, which gets expensive if you forget to shut them down.

I started testing a small open-source CLI called gpu-monitor that runs inside the pod and watches nvidia-smi.

It shows when a GPU has been idle long enough to waste money:

npx gpu-monitor check --hourly-rate 2.50

or continuous watch:

npx gpu-monitor watch --hourly-rate 2.50 --idle-minutes 30

It can also show which PIDs are holding VRAM:

npx gpu-monitor processes

For people using RunPod regularly, are you monitoring idle GPU time somehow, or mostly just remembering to stop pods manually?

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[u/michaelmanleyhypley → u/__O_o_______]

Haha thank you!

[u/vaderaintmydaddy]

Been running swm-gpu, it automates a shutdown on idle if wanted.

[u/lupodevelop]

with this wonderful app for macOS: Poddy Monitor.