Description

CPU Control Menu (Bash) — A lightweight, terminal-based CPU management tool for Linux. Written entirely in Bash, it is driver-aware: frequency control works correctly on modern intel_pstate / amd-pstate (which have no userspace governor) by writing sysfs directly, not relying on cpufreq-set -f. Simple, portable, and a no-frills alternative to the GUI tool cpu-power-manager you will find in my repo, which is a overkill gtk ui / rust backend version of this plus more.

Features

• One-shot power profiles: Max / Balanced / Quiet / Battery
• Live monitor: per-core MHz, package temp, power draw, governor
• Set governors and Energy Performance Preference (EPP)
• Pin a fixed frequency; set min/max limits; release all limits
• Toggle Intel/AMD Turbo Boost
• RAPL power cap (PL1) + live package power (watts)
• Save/restore a baseline snapshot to return to stock
• Run stress tests; view CPU info and logs
• Menu UI via dialog or whiptail, with a plain-text fallback

Dependencies

Talks to sysfs directly — no hard dependency on cpufrequtils. Optional:

• dialog or whiptail (menu UI; falls back to plain text)
• stress or stress-ng (stress test)
• sudo (required only when applying changes)

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