cpupower

Tools regarding CPU power and tuning options. More information: <https://manned.org/cpupower>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/cpupower.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install linux-cpupower
Ubuntu
apt-get install linux-cpupower
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S cpupower
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install linux-cpupower
CentOS
yum install cpupowerutils
Fedora
dnf install kernel-tools
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-cpupower
Raspbian
apt-get install linux-cpupower
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/cpupower

Tools regarding CPU power and tuning options. More information: <https://manned.org/cpupower>.

  • List CPUs:
    sudo cpupower --cpu all info
  • Print information about all cores:
    sudo cpupower --cpu all info
  • Set all CPUs to a power-saving frequency governor:
    sudo cpupower --cpu all frequency-set --governor powersave
  • Print CPU 0's available frequency [g]overnors:
    sudo cpupower --cpu 0 frequency-info g | grep "analyzing\|governors"
  • Print CPU 4's frequency from the hardware, in a human-readable format:
    sudo cpupower --cpu 4 frequency-info --hwfreq --human

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