Control Power Profiles daemon using a dedicated powerprofilesctl
command-line utility.
Permanently change the power profile
Display version of the Power Profiles command-line utility.
$ powerprofilesctl version
0.10.1
Display active power profile.
$ powerprofilesctl get
performance
Display available power profiles.
$ powerprofilesctl list
* performance: Driver: intel_pstate Degraded: no balanced: Driver: intel_pstate power-saver: Driver: intel_pstate
Alter currently active power profile.
$ powerprofilesctl set balanced
$ powerprofilesctl get
balanced
Inspect permanent configuration.
$ cat /var/lib/power-profiles-daemon/state.ini
[State] Driver=intel_pstate Profile=balanced
Temporarily change the power profile
Launch a command while holding a specific power profile.
$ powerprofilesctl launch --profile performance --reason "performance profile for 5 minutes" --appid "sleep - $$" sleep 300
Display active alterations.
$ powerprofilesctl list-holds
Hold: Profile: performance Application ID: sleep - 1567353 Reason: performance profile for 5 minutes
Display command used to create this hold/alteration.
$ ps --ppid 1567353 -o command=
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/powerprofilesctl launch --profile performance --reason performance profile for 5 minutes --appid sleep - 1567353 sleep 300