How to change CPU governor to performance

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How to change CPU governor to performance

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Raspberry Puppy (Raspup 8.2.1)

The CPU Frequency Scaling Tool will not work.
It will provide some information.
What governor is being used.
powersave or performance
What speed MHz the CPU is running at.

Thanks to a post by lizardidi

To change the governor being used
Use this terminal command:

# to show current cpu governor
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

# to set cpu governor to performance thru terminal, type:
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

If you make this change.
On reboot it will go back to powersave.
So you will have to run the command again.

you can put this script file in /root/Startup directory.
It will set CPU to performance, as part of booting process.
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