Given the description of your workaround, you may be running into an issue of long GPU driver load times for the nvidia driver. If that is the root cause the re

Given the description of your workaround, you may be running into an issue of long GPU driver load times for the nvidia driver. If that is the root cause the recommended solution for this is nvidia-persistenced, though it seems you may have rolled your own equivalent. https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-persistenced https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-persistenced Docs here http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html