HowTo: Disable CPU throttling on Arch Linux1

a) Install cpupower:

sudo pacman -S cpupower

b) Enable CPU power service at boot:

sudo systemctl enable cpupower.service

c) View current CPU power settings:

cpupower frequency-info

d) Set maximum available CPU frequency:

sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance

  1. Based on Arch Linux CPU throttling wikipage. ↩