driconrikus / freqselect

Simple interactive tool to select cpu frequency governor from command line

freqselect

Simple interactive tool built around cpupower to manipulate CPU frequency governor from command line to help you get the best performance or battery life for your computer.

Requirements

• Any Linux distribution.
• linux-tools-generic on debian/ubuntu based distros.
• kernel-tools on RHEL based distros.

How to use

1. clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/driconrikus/freqselect.git
2. Install dependencies, if needed. For Debian/Ubuntu based distros: sudo apt install linux-tools-generic For RHEL based distros sudo dnf install kernel-tools or yum install kernel-tools
3. make the script executable if needed. chmod +x freqselect.sh
4. Run it! ./freqselect
5. Optionally, you can move it (or softlink it) to /usr/local/binif you want to have it available to all users.

Notes

• This script must be run as root.
• Persistence mode relies on systemd, it will not work on init based systems.