Now looking at my work pc, that is a pretty fresh MATE install, here the setting is "frequency-set --governor powersave" but it doesn't behave like it. So how this works might differ for your hardware.
I'll try to investigate further. On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:05 AM, Jerrod Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> >> >> > > >
