System76-Scheduler 2.0.1: "Significant" Reduction In CPU/RAM Use, Gamescope Detection

[phoronix]

Phoronix: System76-Scheduler 2.0.1: "Significant" Reduction In CPU/RAM Use, Gamescope Detection

Last week System76 released System76-Scheduler 2.0 as their Rust-written Linux desktop scheduler that serves as a user-space daemon to dynamically manage process priorities to favor performance and responsiveness. That's now been succeeded by a v2.0.1 update with a few more features and improvements...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Scheduler-2.0.1

[szymon_g]

what's the easiest way to try it on ubuntu?

[FPScholten]

Not exactly a scheduler on it's own, but more a neat way to set different properties for the standard CFS cpu scheduler in linux. Could also be done by manually tuning several sysfs tunables but that is a lot more cumbersome.

[gfunk]

what's the easiest way to try it on ubuntu?

System76 are responsible for PopOS distro which is Ubuntu based, I would recommend trying it in place of ubuntu

[szymon_g]

System76 are responsible for PopOS distro which is Ubuntu based, I would recommend trying it in place of ubuntu

sadly, pop_os doesn't support secure boot.