Linux Tuning Profiles

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:31:13 +0200

Preprovisioned tuning profiles

user1@rhel10-vm2:~$ ls /usr/lib/tuned/profiles
accelerator-performance  balanced          desktop      intel-sst            network-latency     optimize-serial-console  throughput-performance  virtual-host
aws                      balanced-battery  hpc-compute  latency-performance  network-throughput  powersave                virtual-guest
user1@rhel10-vm2:~$

Verify and change tuning profiles

Verify that the tuned service is installed with DNF:

user1@rhel10-vm2:~$ dnf list --installed | grep tuned
tuned.noarch                                   2.25.1-2.el10_0                @rhel-10-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

Verify the status of the service with systemctl:

user1@rhel10-vm2:~$ systemctl status tuned
● tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tuned.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-08-21 19:29:51 CEST; 1h 15min ago
 Invocation: fa8cec68b5b449ee9d4f13e2ef0a4618
       Docs: man:tuned(8)
             man:tuned.conf(5)
             man:tuned-adm(8)
   Main PID: 936 (tuned)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 10680)
     Memory: 17.7M (peak: 19.7M)
        CPU: 952ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/tuned.service
             └─936 /usr/bin/python3 -Es /usr/sbin/tuned -l -P

Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.
user1@rhel10-vm2:~$

Display the list of available tuning profiles:

Tuning on

Linux Tuning Profiles

Preprovisioned tuning profiles

Verify and change tuning profiles