Trying to display GPU usage.

[Gat Pelsinger]

I am on Arch and I am trying to display the usage of my Intel integrated graphics in my i3bar through i3blocks. I found the intel-gpu-tools package. In the terminal, I can run the intel_gpu_top command which lays out some information of the GPU in a nice readable and graphical format. But if I want to say, grep the usage, it would be better to use the -l (l as in lose) parameter which outputs the data in just normal text format. The usage column is hard to find but it is the second percent sign, which should be just after the 2 columns of the IMC reading, if anybody is willing to check out.

 

I have tried a lot of grep and awk variations, but I am not able to correctly get the usage data. Surely there has to be a better way. I can also output the data to a file by using the -o parameter, which could help in parsing. Here you can see the package contents of the intel-gpu-tools package - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/intel-gpu-tools/. Scroll to the bottom. I tried checking if there is a standalone program to get the GPU usage, but by the names, I couldn't find any.

[wasab]

Learn regular expression. Grep supports full regex. 

 

You can also use scripting or a programming language that takes in text input from stdin or read from a file and then do string manipulation to get an output you desire. I see you have been learning C recently, this might be a good exercise and homework for you. 

[Ralphred]

5 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

I have tried a lot of grep and awk variations

Just post the output in a code block and we'll grep/awk/sed it for you.