My last Garuda install on this laptop got eaten by a failing SSD, and there’s one thing I haven’t been able to track down, since reloading it. I previously had a program installed, almost a CPUPower-GUI or OpenHardwareMonitor on steroids. Unlike CPUPower-GUI, it had charts for speed, voltage, governors, temperatures, and power, both for the package and cores. It could set CPU speed limits, and change governors, on a per-core basis, and on supported Intel CPUs (not mine), offset voltages. It was very useful to have all that info shown at the same time, in the same window, as feedback, to help get TLP settings tuned right.
Does anybody have an idea what it was? I’ve been looking, on and off, for a few weeks, now, and for the life of me, I cannot find it. I think it was in one of the repos, but am not 100% sure, anymore.
TLPUI just has an awkward UI for setting things. It allows for setting % - but of what, given Tiger Lake has many built-in power limits, and what does any given % correspond to, for performance vs noise? I don’t even remember whether passive or active P-state was better on AC, or the powersave or performance governors, with a % or clock limit. My aim is to be able to run some games that it can handle, and alt-tab here and there, see what it’s been up to, take notes, and adjust. The normal behavior, which is entirely understandable, is to offer about as much performance as the cooling can allow, up to 28W over time, and 64W short-term turbo. But, between the very obvious slow PWM fan control, ball bearing noise, and the laptop getting heatsoaked (I’m sure the electronics are all safe, but it gets uncomfortably hot for my fingertips to be tying on), I’ll take a bit of a hit for quality of life. But, I still want it to turbo when useful, and not run super slow…and, I know there’s a sweet spot, for that, that I can reach with TLP, I just didn’t think to back it up.
It’s not it (but I think it will do!). However, I’ve been looking in the repos (including the normal and Chaotic AUR), and outside of them for githubs/gitlabs, not commercial software. I did not even know OCCT had a native Linux version. It doesn’t have power monitoring, for my system, which would be nice. But, it does offer graphing of clocks, temps, and fan speed, which should be enough to work out how some of the TLP settings changes are affecting things.