My system running smoothly, really fast, but could it be better?

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Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

I saw its name mentioned in a few Phoronix articles such as this and this. However, I never tested it myself as I prefer being on an officially supported kernel.

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I’m testing right now, AUR packages linux-xanmod-ege and linux-xanmod-edge-headers

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see what system services are running. stop/disable ones you think that you might not need. use htop or other system monitoring tools to determine what could be optimized. set cpu- governor to performance. You could build a custom kernel.

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I disabled a few services already, such as avahi, wpa (don’t use wireless or radius auth), bluetooth…

I was doing an overclock yesterday, overclock with downvolt…
I was able to get +50MHz, with a custom pbo curve per core, and not thermal throttling using air cooler
Stable with prime95 and cinebench23 (getting 12128 points with a 5600x).

$ cpu_freq_check2
analisando o CPU 0:
  driver: amd-pstate
  CPUs que rodam na mesma frequência de hardware: 0
  CPUs que precisam ter suas frequências coordenadas por software: 0
  maior latência de transição: 131 us
  limites do hardware: 550 MHz - 4.72 GHz
  reguladores do cpufreq disponíveis: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
  política de frequência atual deve estar entre 550 MHz e 4.72 GHz.
                  O regulador "ondemand" deve decidir qual velocidade usar
                  dentro desse limite.
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency: 3.22 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
    AMD PSTATE Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 4.72 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Nominal Performance: 130. Nominal Frequency: 3.70 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Non-linear Performance: 61. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 1.73 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Performance: 20. Lowest Frequency: 550 MHz.

Regarding building my own kernel, I never tried that before…

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Did you see that the kernel 6.0 will apply a fix on ryzen cpu ? :slight_smile: I love when you get more perf for free !

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Fast operation means different things to everyone. There are those who like that the system boots lightning fast. Others prefer fast app launch and app running. There are things that can be accelerated in hardware, and there are things that can be speeded up in software, for example by using more RAM or by changing the swappiness, the latter of which is especially useful on older configurations. So there is no uniform mature method, but the same applies here as for kernel updates: don’t break what works.

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I’m right there with you. Ryzen 3800X

[ricklinux@kde-plasma ~]$ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: amd-pstate
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 131 us
  hardware limits: 550 MHz - 4.56 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
  current policy: frequency should be within 550 MHz and 4.56 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency: 633 MHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
    AMD PSTATE Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 4.56 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Nominal Performance: 142. Nominal Frequency: 3.90 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Non-linear Performance: 64. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 1.76 GHz.
    AMD PSTATE Lowest Performance: 21. Lowest Frequency: 550 MHz.
[ricklinux@kde-plasma ~]$
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