| 7 Feb 2024 |
 @blitz:chat.x86.lol | Download Screencast from 2024-02-07 08-49-56.webm | 07:52:01 |
 FreeVariable | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Don't touch that setting I did touch it and the system feels more responsive:
- remoced that setting
- disabled gnome profile daemon
- enabled auto-cpufreq | 07:59:55 |
| FreeVariable | Best I've got on this machine in months. | 08:00:18 |
| FreeVariable | * I did touch it and the system feels more responsive:
- removed that setting
- disabled gnome profile daemon
- enabled auto-cpufreq | 08:00:35 |
 K900 | Well removing it is probably a good idea, yes | 08:00:41 |
| K900 | Generally | 08:00:42 |
| K900 | Disabling power-profile-daemon does nothing | 08:00:51 |
| K900 | Because the firmware still keeps track of it | 08:00:59 |
| K900 | auto-cpufreq is awful and you really shouldn't be using it | 08:01:07 |
| K900 | What hardware is that on? | 08:01:11 |
| FreeVariable | In reply to@k900:0upti.me
auto-cpufreq is awful and you really shouldn't be using it ouch I do not taste sweeping assertions | 10:55:27 |
| FreeVariable | What makes you think it's awful? | 10:55:40 |
| FreeVariable | In reply to@k900:0upti.me
What hardware is that on? Shared a screenshot a few messages above. | 10:56:04 |
| FreeVariable | In reply to@setunset:matrix.org
Capture d’écran du 2024-02-06 23-50-41.png there | 10:56:21 |
| K900 | In reply to @setunset:matrix.org
What makes you think it's awful? Userspace generally does not have enough knowledge about the hardware state to control it efficiently | 10:56:53 |
| K900 | Firmware does, the kernel does sometimes (but not always) | 10:57:03 |
| FreeVariable | Okay so what is the best approach for someone who wants to use scale up cpu on demand (i.e. for heavy workloads) and minimize it otherwise?
use only NixOS + GNOME native tools (in which case: do I need to configure power management manually? use tlp + thermald only use a combination of the previous two?
| 11:02:17 |
| FreeVariable | Okay so what is the best approach for someone who wants to use scale up cpu on demand (i.e. for heavy workloads) and minimize it otherwise?
use only NixOS + GNOME OOTB utilities (in which case: do I need to configure power management manually? use tlp + thermald only use a combination of the previous two?
| 11:02:50 |
| FreeVariable | Okay so what is the best approach for someone who wants to use scale up cpu on demand (i.e. for heavy workloads) and minimize it otherwise?
use only NixOS + GNOME OOTB utilities only (in which case: do I need to configure power management manually? use tlp + thermald only use a combination of the previous two?
| 11:03:13 |
| FreeVariable | at the end of the day all I am looking for is a single "balanced" mode that automatically scales up and down, adjusting on workload, so that I don't have to think about it at all. | 11:04:56 |
| K900 | In reply to @setunset:matrix.org
Okay so what is the best approach for someone who wants to use scale up cpu on demand (i.e. for heavy workloads) and minimize it otherwise?
use only NixOS + GNOME OOTB utilities only (in which case: do I need to configure power management manually? use tlp + thermald only use a combination of the previous two?
| 12:15:57 |
| K900 | And you can tweak the preference towards more power or more battery life with power-profile-daemon | 12:16:19 |
| FreeVariable | In reply to@k900:0upti.me
Thanks.
When you say 'tweak' do you mean manually adjust using a UI widget? I do not want that. I want to use a auto-scaling logic and go on with my day. | 13:15:10 |
| FreeVariable | * Thanks.
When you say 'tweak' do you mean manually adjust using a UI widget? I do not want that. I want to use an auto-scaling logic and go on with my day. | 13:15:22 |
| FreeVariable | * Thanks.
When you say 'tweak' do you mean manually adjust using a UI widget? I do not want that. I want to use an auto-scaling logic and go on with my day.
So assuming I go with out of the box tools only, which powersaving settings do I need to apply? I've looked this up in the user docs and on the wikis, but information about this is apparently scarce. | 13:16:44 |
| K900 | Then just don't touch anything | 13:16:55 |
| K900 | And it should be fine at stock setting | 13:16:59 |
| K900 | * And it should be fine at stock settings | 13:17:00 |
| FreeVariable | so without using any powersaving setting at all in my configuration.nix? | 13:17:29 |
| K900 | Yes | 13:17:35 |
