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A utility to check stats about your CPU, and auto regulate clock speeds to help with either performance or battery life. This program is designed for Linux and Intel laptops, although it should theoretically work on AMD systems and sometimes desktops as well. If you encounter any issues or bugs, please refer to the wiki to see if there is a solution.

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Goals

Want to help? Yay! Welcome!

Install Latest Release

If you have cargo on your machine, skip to step 3

  1. Go to rustup.rs to install rust.

  2. Setup rust
    rustup override set stable
    rustup update stable
    
  3. Clone the project and install
    git clone https://github.com/JakeRoggenbuck/auto-clock-speed
    
    cargo install --path auto-clock-speed
    
    # This is needed to have the root version of acs match the local installed version
    sudo cp ~/.cargo/bin/acs /usr/bin/acs
    

Note: The latest release of acs can also be installed locally with the following

cargo install autoclockspeed

Tested Devices

Auto clock speed has been tested to work on the following devices. If you have a device that is not listed please submit a pull request.

Functionality Description
Working All parts of ACS are fully functional, the computer has enough data to make decisions on governor changes and can be run in edit mode
Mostly Working ACS is unable to understand some data from the computer however certain data (like battery life, battery condition, temperature etc) which is non essential in making governor decisions, is missing
Partially Working ACS is able to mostly work, although with one or more significant caveat (i.e. jailbreak on Apple devices or root access on Android)
Barely Working ACS is unable to be ran in edit mode due to missing data from the system, monit mode may still work however functionality is limited. If you have a system that falls under this category please open an issue
Borked ACS cannot find any useful data. Please open an issue
Device Name Functionality Notes
Dell XPS 13 9360 Working  
Dell Latitude 7480 Working  
Steam Deck Working Edit mode not neccessary (use built in governor switcher)
Thinkpad T400 Working  
Thinkpad T460 Working  
Thinkpad X230 Working  
Thinkpad X301 Working  
Thinkpad W540 Working  
ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 1 Working  
Thinkpad P1 Gen 4 (Intel Core) Working  
Thinkpad P14 Gen 2 (AMD) Mostly Working See #443
OnePlus 9 Pro (Snapdragon 888 SoC) Partially Working Needs root access; compile from source through termux
iPad Pro Gen 6 Barely Working Compiles with iSH, but cannot access any data

In Action

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New Interactive Mode

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Systemd

In order to have auto-clock-speed start when you restart your computer you must follow these instructions

# IMPORTANT: Modify the service file (acs.service) in the
# project directory to include the path to the binary file 
# (usually /home/username/.cargo/bin/acs)
# In the auto clock speed directory run this command to
# move the service file into your systemd directory
sudo cp acs.service /etc/systemd/system/
# Start and enable the service
sudo systemctl start acs
sudo systemctl enable acs

# Check service is up and running
systemctl status acs

Systemctl command

The line after [Service] in acs.service is the command that will be run. You may want to add or remove arguments, mainly --quiet.

[Unit]
Description=Manages Clock Speed

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/your-user-here/.cargo/bin/acs run --no-animation --quiet

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Config

Using default config

WARN: Using default config. Create file '/etc/acs/acs.toml' for custom config or run 'acs initconfig' to setup default config automatically.

This warning recommends creating a config file, use the initconfig command to automatically create one for you!

sudo acs initconfig

This is an example config

also the default settings if no config is provided

# acs.toml
powersave_under = 20
overheat_threshold = 80
active_rules = [ "battery_percent_rule", "lid_open_rule", "ac_charging_rule", "cpu_usage_rule" ]

Turn Off

If you would like to turn off auto-clock-speed, here are the steps.
Note: This should be done during testing of acs run mode.

# Temporarily stop (only lasts until reboot)
sudo systemctl stop acs

# Permanently stop until turned on
sudo systemctl disable acs

Uninstall

Here is how to uninstall the binary and the systemctl service.

# Remove local binary
cargo uninstall acs

# Remove system shared binary
rm /usr/bin/acs

# Remove systemctl entry
rm /etc/systemd/system/acs.service

Example Usage

Here are some examples of how acs can be used.

# Monitor mode
acs monitor

# Run as root
sudo acs run

# Get all speeds
acs get speeds

# Select gov from dmenu
sudo acs set gov $(acs get available-govs --raw | dmenu)

Detailed usage

Detailed usage can be found on our wiki

Help

Automatic CPU frequency scaler and power saver

USAGE:
    acs <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    daemon         Controls interaction with a running daemon
    get            Get a specific value or status
    help           Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    initconfig     Initialize config
    interactive    Interactive mode for auto clock speed commands
    monitor        Monitor each cpu, it's min, max, and current speed, along with the governor
    run            Run the daemon, this checks and edit your cpu's speed
    set            Set a specific value
    showconfig     Show the current config in use