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CPU Frequency Scaling

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I have written a small shell script to increase or decrease CPU frequency. By default, it shows current CPU
Frequency Scaling Governor. This can be changed only by root user. So this script needs to be run as root
user or sudo as root, while changing the CPU Frequency Scaling governor.

#!/bin/bash

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available_governors=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
\
| head -1 | sed -e 's/ \([a-zA-Z0-9]\)/|\1/g' -e 's/ $//')
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "USAGE: $0 [$available_governors]"
fi

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echo "Command line to change CPU Scaling."

echo "
- By Mitesh Singh Jat"
echo ""

## CPU Governor path

#/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
function current_cpu_governor ()
{
echo -n "Current CPU Scaling Governor is: "
cpu_scaling_governor="NOT SET"
for governor in $(ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
do
cpu_scaling_governor=$(cat $governor)
done
echo "$cpu_scaling_governor"
}
current_cpu_governor;

## Exit, if no governor is provided

new_governor=""
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
exit 0
else
new_governor="$1"
fi

## Run as root always

user_id=`whoami`
if [[ "$user_id" != "root" ]]
then
echo "$0: please run this script as root user."
exit
fi
if [ -z
) ]
then
echo
exit
else
echo
fi

$(echo $available_governors | sed -e 's/^/|/' -e 's/$/|/' | grep "|$new_governor|"

"Sorry, this mode '$new_governor' is not supported."
1
"Setting CPU into '$new_governor' Mode..."

## Now set cpu governor to the given mode

for governor in $(ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
do
echo "$new_governor" > $governor
done
current_cpu_governor;
exit 0

Sample Run
Getting current CPU Frequency Scaling Governor
$ cd /path/where/cpu_scaling.sh/is/copied/

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$ ./cpu_scaling.sh
USAGE: ./cpu_scaling.sh [powersave|conservative|ondemand|userspace|performance]
Command line to change CPU Scaling.
- By Mitesh Singh Jat
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: ondemand
Increasing CPU frequency (Please run as root).
$ ./cpu_scaling.sh performance
Command line to change CPU Scaling.
- By Mitesh Singh Jat
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: ondemand
./cpu_scaling.sh: please run this script as root user.
$ sudo ./cpu_scaling.sh performance
[sudo] password for mitesh:
Command line to change CPU Scaling.
- By Mitesh Singh Jat
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: ondemand
Setting CPU into Performance Mode...
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: performance
$ ./cpu_scaling.sh
USAGE: ./cpu_scaling.sh [powersave|conservative|ondemand|userspace|performance]
Command line to change CPU Scaling.
- By Mitesh Singh Jat
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: performance
Decreasing CPU frequency
$ sudo ./cpu_scaling.sh ondemand
Command line to change CPU Scaling.
- By Mitesh Singh Jat
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: performance
Setting CPU into OnDemand Mode...
Current CPU Scaling Governor is: ondemand

Posted by mitesh.singh.jat at 2:11 PM

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