<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The cpupower utility can be used to set minimum and maximum cpu frequencies and frequency scaling governor. I use it on my intel and amd laptops. With some governor you can't set frequencies, try to change them.</div><div dir="auto">I hope this helps.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Andrey</div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">сб, 2 мар. 2024 г., 03:16 Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin <<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">My laptop was making noises under load, and sadly trayfreq was unable to set cpu frequency for some reason. I poked around /sys and found intel_pstate driver can be configured this way:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">echo 25 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">this sets max frequency to 800 mhz instead of 2.5/3.0 ghz as usual.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">note that 25 is percentage, and on different core iXXX processors results can be different.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">inxi </div><div dir="auto">CPU: dual core Intel Core i5-2450M (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 798/800/3100 MHz Kernel: 5.6.14-x64 x86_64 Up: 27d 14m </div><div dir="auto">Mem: 2453.5/5887.8 MiB (41.7%) Storage: 610.63 GiB (76.4% used) Procs: 227 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.12</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope this might help Phyllis with her overheating intel laptop .....</div></div>
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