Say, by sending some value to something inside /sys/.../cpu or the likes. I have already aggressively debloated the tablet, but I like to experiment and I am not afraid to destroy the tablet since I bought it for 150 bucks at sale. Or pehaps there is some Magisk module that can do this?

The tablet is a Samsung Galaxy A9+.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Thank you for this insight! Before setting the scaling governor, I did some initial testing that showed exactly what you’re saying: whenever I switched windows, fired up another app, wrote to a file - really whatever I tried - the frequencies maxed out. Maybe, what felt marginally snappier was the result of the CPU not having to jump between frequencies? I have zero knowledge on how CPUs work with power… 😅

    • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Yeah could be. There’s some latency for sure, the question is whether it’s noticeable. Definitely hard to tell subjectively, and as far as I know, also hard to measure without special equipment. I just think it’s probably not worth it to use the performance governor, even for (say) a laptop connected to a power supply, just because of the extra heat, fan noise, or the potentially earlier throttling. But I guess you have to judge that for yourself.