Bug 25165

Summary:	Update candidate: gamemode 1.4
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	sysadmin-bugs
Version:	7	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA7-64-OK
Source RPM:	gamemode-1.3.1-3.mga7	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Rémi Verschelde 2019-07-21 13:31:28 CEST

This is a feature and bugfix update for gamemode, a command line tool to launch games (or other CPU and GPU intensive programs) with optimal performance parameters (CPU "Performance" governor, I/O priority, disabling screensaver, etc.).

It's a leaf package and no application depends on it, so it should be fine as an update to Mageia 7.

Advisory:
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Updated gamemode packages improve gaming optimisations

  This update provides gamemode 1.4, the latest upstream release including new
  optimisation features and bug fixes. See the release notes for details.  

References:

 - https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/releases/tag/1.4


RPMs in core/updates_testing:
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gamemode-1.4-1.mga7
lib64gamemode0-1.4-1.mga7
lib64gamemode-devel-1.4-1.mga7


SRPM in core/updates_testing:
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gamemode-1.4-1.mga7

Comment 1 Rémi Verschelde 2019-07-21 13:32:56 CEST

To use it, prefix any command with `gamemoderun`, e.g. `gamemoderun supertuxkart`. It should temporarily enable various optimisations suitable for your device, such as setting the CPU governor to Performance if it was on Powersave, etc.

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2019-07-30 19:41:20 CEST

I've been using it on and off on Mageia 7 x86_64 since pushing the update candidate, everything seems to work fine.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK

Comment 3 Rémi Verschelde 2019-07-30 19:43:07 CEST

Advisory uploaded, validating.

Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2019-08-03 23:20:11 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2019-0075.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED