How can I flush GPU memory using CUDA (physical reset is unavailable)

Question

My CUDA program crashed during execution, before memory was flushed. As a result, device memory remained occupied.

I\'m running on a GTX 580, for which nvidia-

Answer 1

I also had the same problem, and I saw a good solution in quora, using

sudo kill -9 PID.

see https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-kill-all-the-computer-processes-shown-in-nvidia-smi