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Power: disable a bunch of things
BROKE intel arc A380 completely because it was forced into L1.1/L1.2
pcie substates. Forcewaking the device would fail and it would never come up.

So I will be more conservative on power saving tuning.
2026-04-07 19:08:08 -04:00

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{
...
}:
{
powerManagement = {
enable = true;
cpuFreqGovernor = "powersave";
};
# Always-on server: disable all sleep targets.
systemd.targets = {
sleep.enable = false;
suspend.enable = false;
hibernate.enable = false;
hybrid-sleep.enable = false;
};
boot.kernelParams = [
# Disable NMI watchdog at boot. Eliminates periodic perf-counter interrupts
# across all cores (~1 W). Safe: apcupsd provides hardware hang detection
# via UPS, and softlockup watchdog remains active.
"nmi_watchdog=0"
# Route kernel work items to already-busy CPUs rather than waking idle ones.
# Reduces C-state exit frequency at the cost of slightly higher latency on
# work items -- irrelevant for a server whose latency-sensitive paths are
# all in userspace (caddy, jellyfin).
"workqueue.power_efficient=1"
];
boot.kernel.sysctl = {
# Belt-and-suspenders: also set via boot param, but sysctl ensures it
# stays off if anything re-enables it at runtime.
"kernel.nmi_watchdog" = 0;
};
# Server has no audio consumers. Power-gate the HDA codec at module load.
boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
options snd_hda_intel power_save=1 power_save_controller=Y
'';
}