# Powersave mode is still default in RL10 for Raspberry Pi

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** raspberry-pi\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858 "2025-06-19T07:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jachaussloef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jachaussloef](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jachaussloef)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858/1 "2025-06-19T07:13:52Z")

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For some reason the default governor for RL9 for RPi was set to powersave, and could be solved by [Performance Issue of RL9 on Raspberry Pi 4 - #9 by skip77](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/performance-issue-of-rl9-on-raspberry-pi-4/7206/9).

But in RL10, where both the lines end like `"frequency-set -g ondemand"` already, when checking cpugovernor it is still powersave.

I don’t find cpupower.service in RL10 maybe that’s the reason

For now my Raspberry Pi5’s cpu frequency stuck at 1.5GHz while Raspberry Pi 4 at 0.6GHz

My RPi 5 when used as a temporary router running OpenWRT has the 7zip performance benchmark like this:

```auto
7-Zip (z) 24.09 (arm64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2024 Igor Pavlov : 2024-11-28
 64-bit arm_v:8-A locale=C UTF8=- Threads:4 OPEN_MAX:1024, ASM

Compiler: ver:9.2.1 20191025 GCC 9.2.1 : UNALIGNED
Linux : 6.6.86 : #0 SMP Wed May 21 05:23:54 2025 : aarch64
PageSize:4KB hwcap:119FFF:CRC32:SHA1:SHA2:AES:ASIMD
arm64

1T CPU Freq (MHz): 1773 2214 2399 2399 2399 2399 2399
2T CPU Freq (MHz): 198% 2389 198% 2371
4T CPU Freq (MHz): 394% 2375 395% 2384

RAM size: 7957 MB, # CPU hardware threads: 4
RAM usage: 889 MB, # Benchmark threads: 4

                       Compressing | Decompressing
Dict Speed Usage R/U Rating | Speed Usage R/U Rating
         KiB/s % MIPS MIPS | KiB/s % MIPS MIPS

22: 12809 359 3474 12461 | 227649 397 4895 19421
23: 12091 366 3365 12320 | 222582 398 4840 19260
24: 11371 363 3365 12227 | 216482 398 4779 18998
25: 9205 286 3679 10511 | 208999 398 4675 18601
---------------------------------- | ------------------------------
Avr: 11369 343 3471 11880 | 218928 398 4797 19070
Tot: 370 4134 15475

```

And it was not overclocked

Now running RL10 Compressing Rating MIPS is around 6000 (it still feels a bit low because OpenWRT still has 9000 on powersave mode😅)

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**Author:** ![codedude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@codedude](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/codedude)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858/2 "2025-06-19T22:43:51Z")

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Thank you for reporting this issue. Here’s a workaround:  
Create the unit file below with your favorite editor

```auto
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cpupower.service

```

then paste:

```auto
[Unit]
Description=Configure CPU power related settings
After=syslog.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/cpupower
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower $CPUPOWER_START_OPTS
ExecStop=/usr/bin/cpupower $CPUPOWER_STOP_OPTS

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

then:

```auto
systemctl enable --now cpupower

```

That should take care of your issue. We’ll work on getting this fix into our image soon.

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**Author:** ![jachaussloef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jachaussloef](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jachaussloef)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858/3 "2025-06-20T00:51:06Z")

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Thanks a lot, that makes sense  
Looks like

> [@codedude](#):
>
> `systemctl enable --no cpupower`

should be `systemctl enable --now cpupower`  
When starting the service it reported an error, `journalctl -xeu cpupower.service` said there was no `/usr/bin/cpupower`, then `dnf provides cpupower` told me to install `kernel-tools`, which isn’t installed by default.  
Now it should be working normally, thanks again😉

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**Author:** ![codedude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@codedude](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/codedude)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858/4 "2025-06-20T00:53:41Z")

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Sorry about that, was jumping systems. Glad it worked!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/powersave-mode-is-still-default-in-rl10-for-raspberry-pi/18858/5 "2025-08-19T00:53:55Z")

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