The Permission Error

If you are running into this error message when using Nsight-Compute

The user does not have permission to access NVIDIA GPU Performance Counters on the target device 0. For instructions on enabling permissions and to get more information see https://developer.nvidia.com/ERR_NVGPUCTRPERM

The Solution

1. (sudo required) Create .conf file (e.g. profile.conf) in folder /etc/modprobe.d
2. (sudo required) Open file /etc/modprobe.d/profile.conf in any editor
3. (sudo required) Add below line in profile.conf options nvidia NVreg_RestrictProfilingToAdminUsers=0, and close file /etc/modprobe.d/profile.conf
4. (Optional) On some systems (or when using a package manager to install), it may be necessary to rebuild the initrd after writing a configuration file to /etc/modprobe.d. For RedHat-based distributions, rebuild the initrd with dracut -–regenerate-all -f
5. (sudo required) Restart your machine
6. (Optional) Check that the value is correctly set to 0: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params | grep RmProfilingAdminOnly, You should see: RmProfilingAdminOnly: 0

Reference

• https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-development-tools-solutions-err_nvgpuctrperm-permission-issue-performance-counters#AllUsersTag
• https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvprof-warning-the-user-does-not-have-permission-to-profile-on-the-target-device/72374/4