using CPUPOWER command

[zebedeeboss]

Hi,

For the techies. Does the cpupower command work ?
install linux tools common
run the command
it will tell you you need specific things to be installed for the kernel you have
then you can allegedly set cpu performance to powersave or performance

I am being deliberately obtuse as I don't want to post instructions that may end up damaging someones machine.

Has anyone used it before ?

Regards Zeb...

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Hi zeb!
I have no problems here. Although,... running this on Void...
Did you look at the man pages https://linux.die.net/man/1/cpupower ?
Things like

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sudo cpupower monitor

are working just fine 

Thx for the tip. This can be useful 

EDIT: Tried to check on Peppermint, but the available linux-tools-common package using apt-cache search is for the 4.4 kernel, but I'm using the 4.14 kernel... Sorry, I can't be a better help 

EDIT2: So, I've booted into the 4.4 kernel, installed the package and... I need more packages 



Sorry, but I'm running 4.14 and don't need these packages right now... Have you tried installing all the required packages and running the command?

[PCNetSpec]

Quick question .. Why would you want to do this, doesn't speedstepping (as well as P-States and C-States) on modern CPU's take care of this for you ?

[zebedeeboss]

Quick question .. Why would you want to do this, doesn't speedstepping (as well as P-States and C-States) on modern CPU's take care of this for you ?

Sorry for late reply

No idea - that is why I was asking is there any point to using something like cpupower

Regards Zeb...