how to enable nvidia persistence-mode on boot for ubuntu 20.04 (server)

every time I try to do nvidia-smi it takes a long time for it to show up; it turns out there should be persistence mode enabled one easy way is to just call nvidia-smi pm -1. But this does not enable it for boot.

How can I make it work on boot? I tried to run sudo nvidia-persistenced but it's the following to syslog:

 kernel: [ 949.165626] NVRM: Persistence mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use nvidia-persistenced instead. nvidia-persistenced: Started (1994) nvidia-persistenced: Failed to open libnvidia-cfg.so.1: libnvidia-cfg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (1994) nvidia-persistenced: Started (1997) nvidia-persistenced: Failed to open libnvidia-cfg.so.1: libnvidia-cfg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (1997) nvidia-persistenced: Started (2041) nvidia-persistenced: Failed to open libnvidia-cfg.so.1: libnvidia-cfg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (2041)

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The following helped me to resolve error and make persistence daemon:

sudo apt install libnvidia-cfg1-510 #replace 510 with your driver version

then run the following command:

sudo nvidia-persistenced --user USER #replace USER with your username

if you just want to make it presistance for only your current session just run this:

sudo nvidia-smi -pm 1 

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