On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 08:02 +0000, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 00:38 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > You might want to try and figure out why you get `powersave` as > > default governor, but until you've figured it out, you might like > > to force the use of the `schedutil` governor instead > > I get 'powersave' as default too. According to the ArchWiki site [1] > modern Intel CPUs use the intel_pstate driver which selects 'powersave' > by default
I should also add, I have no problem with CPU frequency automatically boosting when needed... $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 800101 $ while : ; do : ; done & [1] 4817 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 4600947 $ kill 4817 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 800174 So that's 0.8GHz -> 4.6GHz -> 0.8GHz -- Tixy