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). >> >> Unfortunately, it clearly is _not_ the behavior I get. .. and I >> hadn't touched any power config until I was trying things to get my >> 900 second execution time down around the 600 seconds it takes on the >> windows/cygwin machine. > > You might want to try and figure out why you get `powersave` as default > governor,
How much weight should a debian user give the arch linux wiki? Because that says you get powersave as the default: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling > but until you've figured it out, you might like to force the > use of the `schedutil` governor instead which should give you the same > kind of speed as the `performance` governor under load while reverting > to low-power state afterwards. I'll take a look at it - thanks Lee
