Ubuntu users!
I have a Intel computer running basically as a HTPC machine for years 24/7 and at a certain point in time the Linux kernel started to use the intel_pstate driver for my i7 Ivy Bridge (I chose such a high-end CPU to an HTPC because it was the most power efficient in lower frequencies). Since then, I lost the ability to fix the CPU frequency in indicator-cpufreq and as this machine stays on all the time I have a higher power consumption than I wanted.
I tried to fix that a few times without success, setting /sys stuff manually included, but in my last try I could finally lower the max frequency using cpupower:
cpupower frequency-set -u clock_freq
My question is: Whats is the best way to run this at boot time in Ubuntu 16.04?
Similar questions I found:
How to permanently set CPU power management to the powersave governor? - CPUFreq is considered deprecated and don't change CPU frequencies with intel_pstate
How to make cpupower not reset after each restart? - This is very close, but since Ubuntu 16.04 uses systemd it doesn't seem appropriate to me to create a legacy SysV service (I don't even know if it works).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_frequency_scaling - Arch seems to have a cpupower.service systemd unit, but I failed to find it in Ubuntu.
