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#1 2017-09-21 11:38:33
- sitwano
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Performance improvement with disabling RC6 sleep modes?
I have screen flickering issues with the latest kernel 4.12.13.
I read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … flickering and was wondering whether disabling the sleep modes would also improve performance in terms of responsiveness in Gnome. I know that power consumption would increase, but would this translate to the GPU handling animations better?
Furthermore, is this really an okay thing to do for laptops?
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#2 2017-09-21 15:54:38
- seth
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Re: Performance improvement with disabling RC6 sleep modes?
Why don't you just test it?
It depends on where the bottleneck is and the drawback is more battery drain.
Whether it's "an okay thing to do for laptops" depends on *your* laptop - if it has a sane cooling architecture and/or enabled emergency throttles/shutdowns, there's nothing wrong with this.
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