s-tui VS powertop

There's a way of doing it via s-tui.

I meet this weird situation after switch my laptop to archlinux from windows these days: the system cooling fan didn't spin at all when using s-tui stress Mode, even the core tempreture was up to 90 celsius shown by zenmonitor, but the fan acts normal in daily use. Can someone explan me why it could happen? the principles beind it is much more welcome!

One good, relevant monitoring tool is s-tui.

s-tui is useful for CPU frequency, temperature, and TDP monitoring (make sure to run it with sudo for power details). It also has a nice stress test.

For the CPU I can recommend s-tui which is basically a GUI for stress. You could of course also just run stress without a GUI

Dual Heat-pipe I'll keep this short the only answer to thermal throttling is undervolting your cpu! If you're actually curious to the impact it had keep reading. For the stress tests I use s-tui .

s-tui could give you more clues on what is happening with your system. If the in-built power profiles don't work, you could try throttled.

If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.

The only Linux tool for this I've even heard of is powertop , which OP mentioned, but it looks nontrivial to build (kernel patches are mentioned).

It just got added in 2023, but there's now --auto-tune-dump which generates a command line invocation of powertop that would set all the auto-tune settings. Instead of running --auto-tune, you can make a script of this dump, modify it to your contentment, and run the script instead of auto-tune at startup.

Ideally there would also be a way to omit certain tunings from auto-tune as well, but

https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/pull/116

Would running auto-cpufreq and powertop be a better combination to avoid installing XFCE4 dependencies? I don't play a lot of games or do a ton of compiling, but when I need to, I would like to be able to get as much out of the hardware as I can.

Recommend looking for an open bug report here for the same issue, and if nobody else has opened one you can file one yourself to get support/get the issue fixed in a patch.

`powertop --auto-tune` can set some settings to "good", but it may in fact be counterproductive, e.g. setting USB to autosuspend that suspends a mouse that shouldn't be, etc. See here for more info. In my experience/research, it doesn't really do much.

For me it wasn't efficient by default. I use powertop and auto-cpufreq

It may be found at GitHub.

I've tried using powertop, even though I'm not sure if it works well on desktop, but I'm blocked by an unsolved segmentation fault issue on Ryzen CPUs that is documented here https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/issues/64.