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Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 8 June 2026 at 01:56 PM EDT. 21 Comments
Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without that CachyOS default.

Ananicy-cpp is a system utility that tries to optimize Linux performance by dtnamically managing process priorities. Those wanting to learn more about it can do so via this GitHub repository for the CachyOS rules applied.

👁 CachyOS Hello


👁 CachyOS with Ananicy-cpp disabled


With Ananicy-cpp being used by default on CachyOS, I ran another linux-cachyos-bore run but with disabling Ananicy-cpp that can be easily done via the CachyOS Hello app.

So here's a look at those additional CachyOS benchmark figures:







While disabling Ananicy-CPP with BORE is reported to help reduce game stuttering issues, in most of the benchmarks I ran there wasn't any real difference with Ananicy-CPP disabled.



One area observed where disabling Ananicy-CPP did help the linux-cachyos-bore performance was in FIO's sequential write benchmarks.



Disabling it was a mixed bag for the Ethr network local host benchmark runs.


Those interested can see all the conducted benchmarks via this result file, but long story short besides the noted benefits in FIO IO_uring for sequential writes, disabling Ananicy-CPP with BORE didn't provide much of an observable benefit in these particular benchmarks carried out.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.