Raspberry PI stable overclock

  • edit the RPI config to improve the perfomance within a long stable runtime
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
[all]
arm_freq=2000             # CPU Frequency
core_freq=500             # GPU Frequency
sdram_freq=500            # RAM Frequency
over_voltage=5            # Electric power sent to CPU / GPU (4 = 1.35V)
#gpu_freq=750             # GPU not in use
gpu_mem=16                # GPU Memory to minimal value
start_x=0                 # don't start x-server
disable_splash=1          # disables the display of the electric alert screen
  • check the new power/mem settings with following commands
lscpu
vcgencmd get_mem arm;vcgencmd get_mem gpu
  • disable WiFi and Bluetooth
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
# WiFi disable
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil
# Bluetooth disable
blacklist btbcm
blacklist hci_uart
  • disable HDMI
sudo /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o
  • reboot the RPI after the changes and check the running services
sudo service --status-all | grep " + "