CPUPOWER-INFO(1)

πŸ’– CPUPOWER-INFO πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is cpupower-info, part of the cpupower Manual ✨ β€” the little page that spills the tea on what your processor's power settings are actually doing rn πŸ«–πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

cpupower-info β€” shows processor power related kernel or hardware configurations ✨

like, it tells you what your kernel and your hardware have decided about saving power. no cap.


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

cpupower info [options]

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

cpupower info shows kernel configurations or processor hardware registers affecting processor power saving policies. it's giving "let me read your settings" energy fr fr πŸ’–

so here's the thing: some options are platform wide, and some affect single cores. by default, values of core zero are displayed only. 😌

if you want the settings of all cores, you'd do:

cpupower --cpu all cpuinfo

and for how to choose specific cores, go peek at cpupower(1). iykyk πŸ‘‘


πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

  • -b, --perf-bias β€” gets the current performance bias value. literally just reads it, doesn't change anything πŸ“

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

options are described in detail in:


🫢 tiny reminder bestie: this page only shows you stuff. if you wanna change things, that's a whole other page (hi cpupower-set(1)).

and that's the whole vibe, bestie πŸ’– this lil gem is from the cpupower Manual, dated 22/02/2011 β€” vintage but still serving ✨🌸 go forth and inspect those cores πŸ‘‘πŸ¦‹

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
  • alpine 3.24: linux-tools-doc 7.1.5-r0 Β· GPL-2.0-only
  • arch rolling: cpupower 7.3.1-1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
  • fedora 43: kernel-tools 7.2.11-100.fc43
  • fedora 43: kernel-tools 7.2.14-100.fc43 Β· ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND CC0-1.0 AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)
  • fedora 43: kernel-tools 7.2.15-100.fc43 Β· ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND CC0-1.0 AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)
  • fedora 43: kernel-tools 7.2.9-100.fc43
  • fedora 44: kernel-tools 7.2.11-200.fc44
  • fedora 44: kernel-tools 7.2.14-200.fc44 Β· ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND CC0-1.0 AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)
  • fedora 44: kernel-tools 7.2.15-200.fc44 Β· ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND CC0-1.0 AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)
  • fedora 44: kernel-tools 7.2.9-201.fc44
  • nixos 26.05: cpupower 7.3.1
  • nixpkgs unstable: cpupower 7.3.1
  • ubuntu stonking: linux-tools-common 7.3.0-10.10
  • ubuntu stonking: linux-tools-common 7.3.0-9.9
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