VMAD(8)

🌸 VMAD(8) — like, the vma daemon, bestie 🌸

okay so first thing: this is the manual page for vmad, and it lives in section 8 of the manual (that's the system-administration girlies 💅). The page title up top is VMA(@VMA_LIBRARY_MAJOR@.@VMA_LIBRARY_MINOR@.@VMA_LIBRARY_REVISION@) — yes that's the literal placeholder text, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

vmad — the NVIDIA Messaging Accelerator (VMA) daemon. it's giving background-process realness 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vmad [--console] [--pid,-p num] [--fid,-f num] [--force-rst]
[--verbose,-v level]

literally just the daemon name and some flags, no cap. two lines because the vibes were too big for one 😭

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

vmad is the daemon program for vma(7). that's it, that's the whole relationship — vma's the main character, vmad is the loyal bestie holding it down in the background 🧚

you can configure vmad using command-line options. iconic of it, honestly ✨

the options are as follows:

• --console — turns on foreground mode. no hiding in the background, she's out here in the open 💅
• --pid, -p num — sets num as the prime number serving as the maximum of processes per node. big-node-energy 🌈
• --fid, -f num — sets num as the prime number serving as the maximum of sockets per process. sockets but make it prime ⭐
• --force-rst — forces an internal RST. dramatic? maybe. necessary? apparently 😤
• --verbose, -v level — outputs at the given verbose level. the higher the level, the more she's gonna talk 🗣️🔥

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• vma(7)
• vma_stats(8)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

NVIDIA CORPORATION <networking-support@nvidia.com> — that's the whole author section, one (1) corporation, and they ate 👑

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ngl bestie, every flag here is load-bearing. don't go dropping --force-rst into random commands just to see what happens 🙈

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aaand that's the page!! footer says libvma, dated 20 May 2026, and the footer title is VM...A(8) 🍓 (yes the original footer really does look like that, I'm not editing the source material, I'm just hyping it up ✨). mwah, go read vma(7) next 💖