Ananicy VS auto-cpufreq

For anyone using CPU or IO intensive programs, you can also keep using your desktop, with Cachy OS kernel or Bore scheduler/kernel and Ananicy or ananicy-cpp. Happy gentoo user here, compiling for hours while listening to music/browsing without hiccups.

You might want to get ananicy. It's a daemon that automatically sets the niceness values of processes for better realtime performance. Basically sets the priority of processes you probably care about (like your DE/WM) higher than that of those you probably don't (like a compiler).

https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications.

Having taken a look at the daemon, it actually reminds of Ananicy. I'm not familiar with 'Gamemode' so I cannot compare but anyways, this seems to be focused in laptops primarily, something that Tuned isn’t either. It’s going to be a nice thing to have around.

You can enable Ananicy with the command systemctl enable --now ananicy.service so that the service always runs, even after a reboot of the computer. The tool then applies the existing rules (https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy/tree/master/ananicy.d/00-default) to various programmes such as Steam. If necessary, you can also create or adapt your own rules.

Check out https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy

There is also ananicy, billed as, er, 'another auto-nice demon'.

You might want to get ananicy/nohang, or a system oomd killer to better optimise cpu processes and priorities to prevent this.

If you want to automatize this you can use ananicy,it has rules for each program and when you open a program (a game for example),it applies the nice values and IO bounds automatically,you can modify the .rules and create in case the program you have doesn't exist.

github repository

git clone https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq.git cd auto-cpufreq && sudo ./auto-cpufreq-installer

I know that Pop os doesn't recommend installing tlp because it might interfere with system-76 power, Is it the same for something like powertop or auto-cpufreq?

The device had only been purchased ~1-2 months ago so I don't think that dust in the fans would be an issue (as suggested in another post; Intel NUC's overheating - Solution!). The installation of Linux is more or less fresh, the only thing (I think) installed that would affect temperatures is auto-cpufreq (which has slightly lowered temperatures).

I dont know how well it actually works but I use this: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq

auto-cpufreq (switching between performance- and powersaving mode),

You can also use tools like auto-cpufreq to reduce your cpu frequencies when not in heavy load. auto-cpufreq can be configured a lot to meet your specific needs. auto-cpufreq: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq