YES! ondemand is the way to go! On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:50 PM Joost Ruis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. > > Today I was looking into why my games underperform so badly in Sabayon > Linux compared to Windows 10. > Since I bumped kernel to 4.16.2 I was expecting to see at least some > improvements. > > After checking everything was set and installed fine. (amdgpu module > loaded, firmware loaded, etc etc) I went and look into the CPU scaling. I > discovered that my Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU @3.20GHz was never touching > it's max speed, not even close. So I looked at the cpupower settings and > learned it was set to powersave. > > After changing this on-the-fly, using: cpupower frequency-set -g ondemand > games ran WAY better, obviously. So I wondered where this setting came > from. Apparently it is set in /etc/sysconfig/cpupower provided by > sys-power/cpupower. > > I propose we set this to ondemand. (Not sure if we want to fork the ebuild > for this) > > Thoughts? > > >
