system76-scheduler

Funny thing is, a lot of the System76 tweaks aren't specific to their system (or OS) at all. One popular example is the system76-scheduler, which you can install on pretty much any hardware or distro for the same responsiveness improvements: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler Kinda leads me to believe the whole "vertically integrate my Framework" shtick is a snipe hunt.

> I don't know what Popos does to make it more "gaming focused" than vanilla Ubuntu. They have a few changes, chief among them being the PopOS scheduler which I find to be quite effective: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler The desktop itself is a weird custom-baked x11/GNOME customization you won't really get on Ubuntu. Not many distributions can claim the title of being truly "unique", but PopOS does deserve the title in my opinion. Even still it wouldn't be my choice for gaming, but I'll defend it's identity as something more than another GNOME/Debian spin.

Power management kinda doesn't work on Linux, outside of ACPI. There are very minimal rules once you disconnect from AC, and most of the time you'll switch into high-usage mode when it isn't needed. There's not a clean way to fix this, to my knowledge; the Linux scheduler stack is just kinda based around desktop and server hardware. That being said, I also use Linux on my Thinkpad anyways. There are decent enough workarounds that I can keep my system up for 5-6 hours when away from AC: - Switching into battery-saver mode will keep clock speeds down, which generally reduces power usage (as long as you aren't slamming the cores) - tlp can help if your hardware has power-draining characteristics (I don't use it, my defaults are good enough) - Using an auto-nicer can keep your system feeling responsive in low-resource environments: https://gi

System76 recently announced their responsiveness optimizer, System76 Scheduler [0], which basically works as a daemon, adjusting the nice value and the CFS knobs for processes in the box for increased responsiveness. They've claimed that the responsiveness is therefore increased, which I'm also believed so. However, this got me wondering, is there exists any tool that can report the "numbers" (e.g., scheduling latency) regarding to the responsivenss? Maybe Google has such tool for testing regression for Android or Chrome OS, sadly, I didn't managed to find one. Thanks! [0] https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler

I genuinely don’t mean this as dismissive but I think this article could benefit from de-fluffing because it’s a good idea that gets lost in the weeds of “tuning”, “scheduler” and “rust.” This program is almost literally `nice` (with a tiny tiny subset of `tuned`) but exposed as a dbus service. I think desktop Linux could benefit from this being a standard API and compositors exposing enough information about the active window to make use of it but for anyone to know that it has to be known that this is actually what it is — a less drastic rtkit. This is the meat: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler/blob/master/src...