For those unaware CachyOS offers tuned with cachy flavor (tuned-cachy)
I haven't seen much about it (neither here nor on discord) but I have been using it for more than one week and it's been working great!
For those unaware tuned is an alternative for the power-profiles-daemon (ppd) made by redhat and the default in fedora. It allows to create profiles that can configure many parts of the system (even outside of power behavior).
The cachy team have enhanced it with additional plugins. Those include:
- Setting the AMD CCD preference to either frequency or cache (useful for dual-CCD CPU's)
- Using a custom scx_scheduler with a specific mode (by default it doesn't set a scheduler. You have to configure this manually)
And obviously custom profiles:
- cachyos-balanced-battery
- cachyos-powersave
- cachyos-desktop
- cachyos-gaming
Thanks to the tuned-cachy-ppd package you don't have to do much. You can use the powersave, balanced and performance profiles just as before. This means it's compatible with the game-performance script that cachy also offers.
To install it do the following:
Remove cpupower and power-profiles-daemon:
sudo pacman -Rs cpupower power-profiles-daemon
Restart your computer or make sure the services are no longer running:
systemctl stop cpupower.service
systemctl stop power-profiles-daemon.service
Install the tuned packages and enable the tuned service:
sudo pacman -Sy tuned-cachy tuned-cachy-ppd
systemctl enable --now tuned.service
systemctl enable --now tuned-ppd.service
Tuned comes with a simple gui as well that you can use to configure profiles to your liking and set them outside of the restrictive three (power-save, balanced, performance):
