[Question] How to control from terminal?

[RafalSkolasinski]

Just a question, the extension itself works as expected (and it's awesome BTW!).

As the extension is doing really good job in controlling CPU freqs I wanted to use the same method to control them from terminal. I looked briefly through code and found references to cpufreqctl binary.

However, when I try following

$ sudo cpufreqctl-rskolasinski info frequencies                                                                                                                                                             
mode: continuous
min: 17
max: 100

the output is slightly different from what I have currently set

Question: what would be equivalent CLI command to read / set frequency limits?

[RafalSkolasinski]

Also... where does the discrepancy come from?

[fin-ger]

The info subcommand only outputs your hardware capabilities. Your CPU supports a minimum setting of 17% and a maximum of 100%.

Use turbo get, max get, and min get to get the current setting. Use turbo set, max set, and min set to set the values accordingly. Please keep in mind that the configured profiles are only available in the extension, not the cpufreqctl CLI tool.

[fin-ger]

if you plan on scripting with the CLI tool, you might want to have a look at --format=json for easy output processing. But please keep in mind that this json API is not stable and might have different structure in a future update.

[RafalSkolasinski]

Thank you so much, the

sudo cpufreqctl-rskolasinski max get
sudo cpufreqctl-rskolasinski max set 60

are doing exactly what I need :) I should have read the included --help probably more carefully!

if you plan on scripting with the CLI tool, you might want to have a look at --format=json for easy output processing. But please keep in mind that this json API is not stable and might have different structure in a future update.

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. But mostly I just need it to "limit" CPU on some of headless boxes if they get too loud. And as your gnome extension is working reliably and doing exactly what I need it to normally I did not want to look for another solution.