Cpupower defaults to Performance mode

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I recently installed Rocky 8.5 and observed that the CPU governor policy defaults to “Performance”. I changed this policy to “conservative” by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/cpupower. But after restart the policy goes back to “Performance” mode. And when I “systemctl restart cpupower” first time there is no difference, and if I restart the service again then the policy changes to what I want. Any idea how to fix this ?

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What happens if you change it through the tuned-adm command?

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Thanks FrankCox, the following command helped fix the cpu frequency scaling.

tuned-adm profile desktop

cpupower is also using “conservative” cpufreq governor after restarts.

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