CPU Scaling Governor - Not Installed/Found

FlashPan

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Oct 22, 2023
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Hello all,

Am running PVE 8.2.7 with Intel E5-2680 v4 (launced in 2016 and is actually a HP Z640 Workstation). Is runign 24x7 with a few windows server VMS

All is working well and I was just tinkering around the internet when I discovered powertop and cpu governing. Never knew these existed until now.

I've managed to get powetop running/configured fine but am falling over very early on with cpu governing.

It does not seem to be installed on my pve?

If I run for instance cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors

or

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

I get no such file/directory exists. So I cannot even inspect what setting am currently on.

The only advice I did find is this helper script to install:

https://proxmoxve-scripts.com/scripts?id=Proxmox+VE+CPU+Scaling+Governor

Should I use this or a "more official" source?

Would I need to change anything within my bios?

If I do get the governor running how would I make that setting permanent?

Thank you and cheers in advance.
 

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