Try it again.  There was an update to the pluginURL for this (along with cache dirs and recycle bin) and there wound up being a gap in time between the published new URL and when it actually became available

Confirmed successful (no changes to DNS) - Just lucky to hit a just the right time! 

 

I have the plugin set to archive the syslogs (and keep 10), that works but I noticed that now Unraid rotates the syslogs after about 1MB (syslog.1,...) and those are lost, the plugin does not merge them when archiving, it only keeps the main syslog file.

That's valid for the now built-in "syslog-previous" the OS makes. 

 

When using the plugin it also saves diagnostics so the full log is in there but it would still be good to merge any .1, .2 etc when saving both for the plugin and system. 

Still having issues with the available/displayed scaling governors that I can select with Tips and Tweaks.

I'm on AMD 9000 Series platform and have the following governors available (using AMD Pstate / amd_pstate=passive set) in the commandline:

 

While Tips and Tweaks only displays the following:

 

I have set ondemand and conservative by editing the config file of Tips and Tweaks and that actually works just fine, the set governors get applied at the selected timeframe but its a bit cumbersome as it isnt reflected in the GUI and if you want to change anything a reboot is required.

On 4/2/2025 at 4:41 AM, MellowB said:

Still having issues with the available/displayed scaling governors that I can select with Tips and Tweaks.

I'm on AMD 9000 Series platform and have the following governors available (using AMD Pstate / amd_pstate=passive set) in the commandline:

 

While Tips and Tweaks only displays the following:

 

I have set ondemand and conservative by editing the config file of Tips and Tweaks and that actually works just fine, the set governors get applied at the selected timeframe but its a bit cumbersome as it isnt reflected in the GUI and if you want to change anything a reboot is required.

 

I actually came here to mention something about this but see this comment:

https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/prereleases/unraid-os-version-710-rc3-available-r3770/#findComment-33604

 

You will need to use the old ACPI driver if you want the old CPU governors back. Otherwise you get amd-pstate driver which (imo seems better on paper)

 

I will say too with the amd-pstate driver, the turbo-boost option is no longer configurable either. It's just blank. Not sure if that's configurable anymore or not.

 

On my R7-5800X:

 

Edited April 28, 20251 yr by MowMdown

I don't believe that any of the power settings are actually working now since unraid has a native power profile changer it seems.

Is there any way to disable the native power changer as its very primitive compared to this plugin and its ability to schedule and limit clock speed in power savings mode which now also seems to be missing. 

since unraid did this my power consumption has increased by over 100w now that I cannot clock limit of a night

 

On 5/19/2025 at 9:13 AM, IronBeardKnight said:

I don't believe that any of the power settings are actually working now since unraid has a native power profile changer it seems.

Is there any way to disable the native power changer as its very primitive compared to this plugin and its ability to schedule and limit clock speed in power savings mode which now also seems to be missing. 

since unraid did this my power consumption has increased by over 100w now that I cannot clock limit of a night

 

Can you show a screenshot of Tips & Tweaks with your settings and what it's saying is the current set (on the right)

On 5/19/2025 at 8:13 AM, IronBeardKnight said:

I don't believe that any of the power settings are actually working now since unraid has a native power profile changer it seems.

Is there any way to disable the native power changer as its very primitive compared to this plugin and its ability to schedule and limit clock speed in power savings mode which now also seems to be missing. 

since unraid did this my power consumption has increased by over 100w now that I cannot clock limit of a night

 

I am seeing this as well. Tips & Tweaks plugin cannot change the EPP to anything other than "performance" when using amd-pstate-epp.

The two power modes in 7.1.x corresponds to:

Best power efficiency -> amd_pstate_epp powersave performance

Best performance -> amd_pstate_epp performance performance

No matter which setting I choose in Tips & Tweak, the EPP always got set to "performance" even though "balance_performance" or "balance_power" is selected.

I have to use terminal to manually edit the EPP.

e.g. echo "balance_performance" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference

@IronBeardKnight , if you want the old power modes back, you can try this.

• "Balanced Performance" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_performance. Balances performance and power usage, with a slight bias toward efficiency.

• "Balanced Power" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_power. Balances power and performance, but with a slight performance bias.

This confused me a little, as the description has the 'Performance' one being biased towards efficiency, and the "power" one is biased to performance lol. Are these descriptions accidentally reversed?

I am looking for the setting which is on the 'power saving' side of balanced.

9 hours ago, Nirin said:

"Balanced Performance" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_performance. Balances performance and power usage, with a slight bias toward efficiency.

This one.

1 hour ago, ConnerVT said:

This one.

Hi sorry, just to confirm... are you just saying that because of the description (which doesn't match the title), or are you saying that because you know that's the right one, and the description is correct, but the title is wrong?

Cos the titles don't match the descriptions, so one or the other is definitely incorrect lol.

Going from 'max power saving' to 'max performance' should be:

Power Save
Balance_Power
Balance_Performance
Performance

But you seem to be saying that balance_performance is more power saving than balance_power?

Edit: Looking at other sources of the amd pstate drive, it does seem that 'balance_power' should be the more power efficient version compared to 'balance_performance', however I don't know if tips n tweaks has gotten it backwards or has a typo or something.

Edited July 20, 2025Jul 20 by Nirin

Then try it both ways, and see which is more energy efficient. If they are basically the same, then it doesn't matter which you use.

1 hour ago, ConnerVT said:

Then try it both ways, and see which is more energy efficient. If they are basically the same, then it doesn't matter which you use.

I mean I'd have to run like a week of 24/7 tests to figure out the difference, as the differences are going to be pretty minor either way except in long-term averages.

Or I could just ask the dev which AMD profile is lined up with which power state, because AMD already did all that testing so there's no need for me to repeat the work unnecessarily.

Considering the dev has 'balanced power' in the "power save cpu profile" dropdown, I assume that the titles are correct, and that its the descriptions that are backwards.

6 minutes ago, Nirin said:

so there's no need for me to repeat the work unnecessarily.

It's gonna depend on your usage anyway so there isn't really a way to be sure of which is best for your scenario without testing regardless of the labeling.

I doubt a 24/7 test would be required to make a determination.

Are this definitions right

1. "Balanced Performance" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_performance. Balances performance and power usage, with a slight bias toward efficiency.

2. "Balanced Power" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_power. Balances power and performance, but with a slight performance bias.

It's confusing

3 minutes ago, L0rdRaiden said:

Are this definitions right

1. "Balanced Performance" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_performance. Balances performance and power usage, with a slight bias toward efficiency.

2. "Balanced Power" - Set all CPUs frequency scaling to balanced_power. Balances power and performance, but with a slight performance bias.

It's confusing

I recently asked the exact same question. The only answer I got here was "test it for yourself". Which was less than helpful.

However as the dev puts the 'balanced power' one in the 'power saving' menu, and not the balanced performance one, the assumption is that the descriptions are the wrong way around. Doubt it'll ever get fixed, dev doesn't seem active on here.

Another bug to add to the pile -

If "normal governer" is set to balanced power, then the "power save governer" can only be set to balanced power too. If I try and change it to power save, and hit apply, it just changes back to balanced power.

However if I change the normal governer to something else like balanced-performance, then the power saving governer will change to power save. And can't be changed to balanced-power at all.

Very weird behaviour. Something is conflicting somewhere.

I am no longer working on this plugin. LT has taken over the maintenance and support. You will need to contact them about any issues or concerns you have. Future releases will come from them, and not me.

19 hours ago, dlandon said:

I am no longer working on this plugin. LT has taken over the maintenance and support. You will need to contact them about any issues or concerns you have. Future releases will come from them, and not me.

Thanks for all your work on it over the years! Very much appreciated.

4 hours ago, jademonkee said:

Thanks for all your work on it over the years! Very much appreciated.

I'm not going anywhere. LT just decided to take over the support and maintenance of this plugin, along with some other of my plugins.

This plugin no longer works for me after 7.0.1. I tried 7.1.4 before and it also was having a similar issue, but I didn't have the time to investigate. Now that 7.2.2 is out I found some time to upgrade only to have the same issue. If Limetech has taken over is this still the best place to ask for support?

The graph here is from Netdata. You can see my CPU frequency being pretty comfy at about 2.3 GHz. I restarted once before upgrading and you can see on the right hand side the CPU frequency is all over the place after the upgrade with no change in any settings on my part. After downgrading, it went down to a flat 2.2 GHz, not shown, which was nice, though the flat part is probably because I disabled the scheduled performance boost. I have an AMD 5950X for my CPU and it runs pretty hot and loud even with all Noctua fans. The server is in my room so running it cool and quiet is an absolute must and this has been helping a ton; thank you for that, by the way!



Here are the power savings settings on 7.0.1 and then again on 7.2.2. The performance boost modes become empty drop down boxes. I don't think the governors are working either even though they say Power Save.



Now to go downgrade again.

Edited December 18, 2025Dec 18 by Enzer

22 minutes ago, Enzer said:

Now to go downgrade again.

Go to a command line and post the output of this command: /usr/bin/cpufreq-info -d on Unraid 7.0.1 and 7.2.2.

1 hour ago, dlandon said:

Go to a command line and post the output of this command: /usr/bin/cpufreq-info -d on Unraid 7.0.1 and 7.2.2.

7.0.1

acpi-cpufreq

7.2.2

amd-pstate-epp

8 hours ago, Enzer said:

I have an AMD 5950X for my CPU

It may be because of the newer AMD driver; see if it works with the old one, add this to syslinux.