Ask Ubuntu
Doug Smythies's user avatar
Doug Smythies's user avatar
Doug Smythies's user avatar
Doug Smythies
  • Member for 9 years, 2 months
  • Last seen this week
Profile Activity

453 Answers

Score Activity Newest
71 votes
Accepted

Compiling kernel 5.11.11 and later

66 votes

Disabling Intel Turbo Boost in ubuntu

66 votes
Accepted

"W: Possible missing firmware for module i915_bpo" when updating initramfs

40 votes
Accepted

Understanding UFW log

29 votes
Accepted

How to setup apache2 virtualhosts on your home directory on ubuntu 14.04?

26 votes
Accepted

How to set intel_idle.max_cstate=1

26 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu 18.04 not detecting full RAM size

23 votes
Accepted

How to compile and install custom mainline kernel

18 votes

Can I upper limit the CPU frequency?

17 votes
Accepted

Why does the system report 7.7Gb of total Ram when I installed 8Gb?

15 votes
Accepted

Cannot change Intel turbo boost (/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo/ not accessible)

14 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu is very slow when Intel SpeedStep is enabled (CPU is not used in full speed)

13 votes
Accepted

Permanently raising nofile limits in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

12 votes
Accepted

How do I find out what my default terminal text editor is?

12 votes

bash fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

12 votes
Accepted

Block China with iptables

12 votes
Accepted

UFW Allows 22 for IPv4 and IPv6 but SSH Disconnects When Enabling

11 votes

Ubuntu 19 kidle_inject process

11 votes
Accepted

Disabling AMD's equivalent (on a Zen-1 Epyc) of Intel's "turbo boost" at runtime?

11 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu 21.10 switched to nftables, so why is iptables still available?

10 votes
Accepted

How do I disable a specific CPU core at boot?

9 votes

How do I find the temperatures without 3rd party software?

9 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu 15.04 OpenSSL Heartbleed

9 votes
Accepted

Set SSH idle timeout Ubuntu 20.04

8 votes
Accepted

mainline kernel now depends on libc6 2.33, non-installable in focal?

8 votes
Accepted

KVM - Create a virtual machine with 2 bridges interfaces

8 votes

Set CPU governor to performance in 18.04

8 votes

How to test oom-killer from command line

7 votes

Is there any way to underclock my CPU or disable turbo boost? Lenovo Y50

7 votes
Accepted

How to scale intel_pstate driver on Ubuntu 15.04?

1
2 3 4 5
…
16