Their interest was in conserving energy, even marginally decreasing performance.
The problem is that Window's default power profiles are configured far too aggressively for core parking, especially on workstations. This technology is very similar to frequency scaling in that it seeks to throttle the CPU when idle.
Disabled cores are re-enabled as the CPU load increases once again. Core Parking dynamically disables CPU cores to conserve power when idle.
It is a live EXE.īitsum developed ParkControl because core parking settings are hidden in Windows but can significantly affect performance, particularly when bursting CPU-bound loads (the most common type).Ĭore Parking is a sleep state (C6) supported by most newer x86 processors and later editions of Windows. ParkControl is a small freeware utility that facilitates tweaking of core parking and CPU frequency scaling settings of Windows power plans.