undo my experiement with overclocking....

quicksilver

@mitu so the CPU governor is reset to default each time the pi is rebooted?

mitu

@quicksilver If you change it with the method posted above, yes, the sysfs modifications via echo are not persistent.

Amishgamer

I'm not doubint you. But, I am wondering then why is my sysbench readings still coming in >90 seconds when they should be in the 70's.

Any suggestions? I hate to restart building my retropie. It's finally almost the way I like it :D

mitu

@Amishgamer Who knows ? Do you think it matters ?

Amishgamer

Well, earlier today just browsing the Emulationstation got a little choppy...

edmaul69

@Amishgamer emulationstation gets choppy if you have a bunch of systems on the pi. Turning off the help menu fixes it. Not sure if you do or not.

Efriim

@Amishgamer
How do you invoke sysbench?

Amishgamer

sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=4 run

Efriim

@Amishgamer
If i'm reading it right, pi3b+
my overclocked total time is 72 and 75 seconds.
and default gives me 81 seconds.

I don't know what could be adding to get >90s

Efriim

@Amishgamer
It is likely that your pi was throttling to 1200mhz
setting mine to 1200mhz returned 95s sysbench.
while it used to do this at 70c it has been changed to 60c degrees
if you have a fan or heatsink make sure they are properly fixed.
if you only have a heatsink and no fan then this temperature is normal, and the throttling level can be increased by setting
temp_soft_limit=70
to config.txt

here are some commands to read from vcgencmd the current voltage and frequencies
for src in arm core h264 isp v3d; do echo -e "$src:\t$(vcgencmd measure_clock $src)"; done

for id in core sdram_p sdram_i sdram_c ; do echo -e "$id:\t$(vcgencmd measure_volts $id)"; done
and read the systems boot time, userspace time completion can vary by up to 5 - 90 seconds depending on the last shutdown and if the system thinks it needs a filesystem check or on usb drives.
systemd-analyze

I added them to a script to be able to execute all together

#!/bin/bash
for id in core sdram_p sdram_i sdram_c ; do echo -e "$id:\t$(vcgencmd measure_volts $id)"; done
for src in arm core h264 isp v3d; do echo -e "$src:\t$(vcgencmd measure_clock $src)"; done
cpuTemp0=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)
cpuTemp1=$(($cpuTemp0/1000))
cpuTemp2=$(($cpuTemp0/100))
cpuTempM=$(($cpuTemp2 % $cpuTemp1))
echo CPU temp"="$cpuTemp1"."$cpuTempM"'C"
echo GPU $(/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp)
systemd-analyze