Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-03 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 10:19 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 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, and it goes on to say: > > > >    The intel_pstate driver supports

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Lee
On 12/2/21, Stefan Monnier wrote: > How do I get the intel cpu "turbo boost" fully engaged when I'm > running my script and go back into power save mode when the machine is > idle? >>> >>> That should be the default behavior (i.e. if you don't touch any cpu >>> power configuration).

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 08:02 +, 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

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
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.

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/1/21 9:08 PM, Lee wrote: Hi, On 12/1/21, David Christensen wrote: On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts takes about 10 minutes to run on the windows/i3 and 15

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
How do I get the intel cpu "turbo boost" fully engaged when I'm running my script and go back into power save mode when the machine is idle? >> >> That should be the default behavior (i.e. if you don't touch any cpu >> power configuration). > > Unfortunately, it clearly is _not_ the

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Lee
On 12/2/21, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with >>> cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. > > [ Side note: terms like `i3` and `i5` are basically marketing names > equivalent to "cheap" and "average price". They do not

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Lee
Hi, On 12/1/21, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: >> The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with >> cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts >> takes about 10 minutes to run on the windows/i3 and 15 minutes on the >>

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 8:06 PM David Christensen wrote: > . > But, the best answer is to rewrite your script as a parallel program. > The challenge is: what programming language? Shells can do simple > parallelism via background tasks, if you can break up your script > suitably. I have been

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/1/21 8:58 AM, Lee wrote: The short story is that I have an Intel i3 windows 10 desktop with cygwin installed and an Intel i5 debian desktop. One of my scripts takes about 10 minutes to run on the windows/i3 and 15 minutes on the debian/i5! ick if i do $ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Johann Klammer
those powermanagement things are always broken.