cpupower Addons

This small utility was done to customize cpupower tool.

1. Usecases

• cpupower-set-range : You want many-cores system to run at lower frequencies at once, for example : 400 ~ 600Mhz only in all cores.

2. Setup

• git clone https://github.com/thetrung/cpupower-addons to your $HOME.

• mv bash_aliases .bash_aliases (in case you don't have .bash_aliases yet)

  sudo chmod +x cpupower-set-range
  sudo mv cpupower-set* /usr/bin/
  sudo mv cpupower.service /etc/systemd/system/
  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  sudo systemctl restart cpupower.service
  

3. Auto-Services

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/cpupower.service
[Unit]
Description=CPU powersave
[Service]
Type=oneshot
Restart=always
ExecStart=usr/bin/cpupower-set-range 400 550
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Start Service :

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable cpupower.service

~ Enjoy ~