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Cpufreq

Default governor is ondemand for older CPUs and kernels and schedutil for new CPUs and kernels.

TL;DR

# list the available governors
cpupower frequency-info --governors

# get the current active governor
cpupower frequency-info --policy

# set a new governor
sudo cpupower frequency-set --governor performance
sudo cpupower frequency-set --governor powersave
sudo cpupower frequency-set --governor schedutil

Further readings

• CPU frequency scaling
• CPU governer settings ignore nice load