I want to disable Intel "turbo boost" on startup of my system. For reason of this, as well as my laptop details, please refer to my Stack Overflow thread: Why can't my CPU retain peak performance in HPC?
In an answer I made myself, I used the following line inside /etc/rc.local:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
This solution is partly motivated by this thread: Disabling Intel Turbo Boost in ubuntu, and was working just as expected, before I upgrade my Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 in February. But after that it no longer works: the no_turbo value is still 0 and that line has no effect at all.
Of course, I could manually do the following later:
sudo su
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
exit
However, I can't remember doing this every time, and it is very discouraging when I realized that I had forgotten to do so and have to rerun a long benchmarking (like what I am doing now).
Is there an explanation why the same solution fails in 16.04? Or how can I achieve this automatically on startup?
Note I have other lines in rc.local, like for turning off Intel hyperthreading and setting backlight, they all work. It is just this particular line for "turbo boost" that fails. So the problem is not that rc.local is not run.
My machine has UEFI boot loader. Though there is an entry for the so-called legacy BIOS, there are few options there to set. Neither hyperthreading nor "turbo boost" can be configured.
In case someone wonders: the
systemctl enable rc-local.service
does not solve the issue.
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