Why SYS_ADMIN is required?

[Yvanll]

Recently, I found dcgm-exporter will enconter a runtime error: FATA[0000] Failed to watch metrics: Error watching fields: Host engine is running as non-root. And adding --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN with docker run or SYS_ADMIN in yaml can step over the error. I wonder what specific operation causes the issue?

The error was found in below scenarios with dcgm-exporter 3.6.0 without SYS_ADMIN

Device	Driver Version	CUDA Version
NVIDIA A30	535.54.03	12.2
NVIDIA L2	535.154.05	12.2

[Yvanll]

Related issue is 402

[bluayer]

Is there any updates? I just wanna know latest dcgm-exporter version still needs SYS_ADMIN

[glowkey]

This requirement is still inherited from DCGM and would need to be addressed there.