feat: nb performance tweaks

hosts/nb/configuration.nix

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ in {
 
       ./utils/modules/sops.nix
       ./utils/modules/nur.nix
-      ./utils/modules/attic-cache
+      # ./utils/modules/attic-cache
       ./modules/appimage.nix
       ./modules/desktop
       ./modules/development
@@ -77,9 +77,17 @@ in {
 
   swapDevices = [ {
     device = "/nix/persist/swapfile";
-    size = 32 * 1024;  # Size is in megabytes
+    size = 32 * 1024;  # Size is in megabytes (for hibernation)
   } ];
 
+  # Memory tuning for 92GB RAM
+  boot.kernel.sysctl = {
+    "vm.swappiness" = 10;
+    "vm.dirty_ratio" = 10;
+    "vm.dirty_background_ratio" = 5;
+    "vm.vfs_cache_pressure" = 50;
+  };
+
   # nixos cross building qemu
   boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ "aarch64-linux" ];
   boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "ntfs" ];
@@ -100,18 +108,6 @@ in {
     General = { ControllerMode = "bredr"; };
   };
 
-  services.tlp = {
-    enable = true;
-    settings = {
-      CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC = "performance";
-      CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT = "powersave";
-      CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT = "power";
-      CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC = "performance";
-      START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0 = 60;
-      STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0 = 80;
-    };
-  };
-
   environment.persistence."/nix/persist" = {
     hideMounts = true;
     directories = [
@@ -263,13 +259,16 @@ in {
   };
 
   nix = {
-    settings.auto-optimise-store = true;
+    settings = {
-    settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+      auto-optimise-store = true;
-    # autoOptimiseStore = true;
+      experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+      max-jobs = 12;
+      cores = 2;
+    };
     gc = {
       automatic = true;
-      dates = "daily";
+      dates = "weekly";
-      options = "--delete-older-than 30d";
+      options = "--delete-older-than 14d";
     };
     # Free up to 1GiB whenever there is less than 100MiB left.
     extraOptions = ''

hosts/nb/hardware-configuration.nix

@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
   boot.kernelModules = [ "amdgpu" ];
   boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
 
+  # AMD Ryzen 7 7840U optimizations
+  boot.kernelParams = [
+    "amd_pstate=active"
+    "amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10"
+    "amdgpu.dc=1"
+    "snd_hda_intel.power_save=1"
+    "transparent_hugepage=madvise"
+  ];
+
   fileSystems."/" = {
     device = "none";
     fsType = "tmpfs";
@@ -38,9 +47,10 @@
     options = [
       "subvol=@"
       "ssd"
-      "compress=zstd:3"
+      "compress=zstd:1"
       "discard=async"
       "noatime"
+      "commit=120"
     ];
   };
 
@@ -51,9 +61,10 @@
     options = [
       "subvol=@nix-store"
       "ssd"
-      "compress=zstd:3"
+      "compress=zstd:1"
       "discard=async"
       "noatime"
+      "commit=120"
     ];
   };
 
@@ -64,9 +75,10 @@
     options = [
       "subvol=@nix-persist"
       "ssd"
-      "compress=zstd:3"
+      "compress=zstd:1"
       "discard=async"
       "noatime"
+      "commit=120"
     ];
   };
 
@@ -79,13 +91,11 @@
   networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
   # networking.interfaces.wlp52s0.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
 
-  powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave";
   hardware.cpu.amd.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
 
   hardware.graphics = {
     enable = true;
     extraPackages = with pkgs; [
-      amdvlk
       vaapiVdpau
       libvdpau-va-gl
       libva

hosts/nb/modules/desktop/default.nix

@@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ in {
 
   programs.light.enable = true;
 
-  hardware.graphics.extraPackages = [ pkgs.amdvlk ];
-
   hardware.bluetooth.enable = true;
   hardware.bluetooth.powerOnBoot = true;
   hardware.bluetooth.settings = {
@@ -123,8 +121,16 @@ in {
   services.tlp.settings = {
     CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC = "performance";
     CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT = "powersave";
-    CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT = "power";
+
     CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC = "performance";
+    CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT = "balance_power";
+
+    CPU_BOOST_ON_AC = 1;
+    CPU_BOOST_ON_BAT = 0;
+
+    RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC = "auto";
+    RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT = "auto";
+
     START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0 = 60;
     STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0 = 80;
   };

hosts/nb/modules/ollama.nix

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     host = "127.0.0.1";
     port = 11434;
     openFirewall = false;
+    acceleration = "rocm";
     loadModels = [
       "mxbai-embed-large"
     ];

utils/modules/attic-cache/default.nix

@@ -24,8 +24,17 @@ let
     fi
 
     # Read the auth token from sops if available
+    export ATTIC_AUTH_TOKEN
     ATTIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$(cat "${authTokenFile}")
 
+    # Login to Attic cache
+    echo "Logging in to Attic cache at $ATTIC_URL..." >&2
+    if ! ${pkgs.attic-client}/bin/attic login "$ATTIC_CACHE" "$ATTIC_URL" "$ATTIC_AUTH_TOKEN"; then
+      echo "Failed to login to Attic cache, skipping push" >&2
+      exit 0
+    fi
+    echo "Successfully logged in to Attic cache" >&2
+
     # Function to check if a path exists in cache
     path_in_cache() {
       local path="$1"
@@ -43,8 +52,22 @@ let
       fi
     }
 
-    # Read paths from stdin (provided by Nix post-build-hook)
+    # Read paths from OUT_PATHS environment variable (provided by Nix post-build-hook)
-    while IFS= read -r path; do
+    echo "Reading paths from OUT_PATHS..." >&2
+    echo "DRV_PATH: $DRV_PATH" >&2
+    echo "OUT_PATHS: $OUT_PATHS" >&2
+
+    if [[ -z "$OUT_PATHS" ]]; then
+      echo "No output paths provided, skipping push" >&2
+      exit 0
+    fi
+
+    path_count=0
+    # Split OUT_PATHS by space and process each path
+    for path in $OUT_PATHS; do
+      path_count=$((path_count + 1))
+      echo "Processing path #$path_count: $path" >&2
+
       if [[ -e "$path" ]]; then
         # Check if already in cache before pushing
         if ! path_in_cache "$path"; then
@@ -52,10 +75,12 @@ let
         else
           echo "Path $path already in cache, skipping" >&2
         fi
+      else
+        echo "Path $path does not exist, skipping" >&2
       fi
     done
 
-    echo "Attic cache push completed" >&2
+    echo "Attic cache push completed (processed $path_count paths)" >&2
   '';
 
 in {
@@ -63,6 +88,13 @@ in {
     sopsFile = ./secrets.yaml;
   };
 
+  # Create netrc file for authenticated cache access
+  sops.secrets.attic_netrc = {
+    sopsFile = ./secrets.yaml;
+    mode = "0440";
+    group = "nixbld";
+  };
+
   # Install attic client
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     attic-client
@@ -73,6 +105,7 @@ in {
     substituters = [ cacheUrl ];
     trusted-public-keys = [ publicKey ];
     post-build-hook = atticPushHook;
+    netrc-file = config.sops.secrets.attic_netrc.path;
   };
 
   # Create a systemd service for manual cache operations

utils/modules/attic-cache/secrets.yaml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 attic_auth_token: ENC[AES256_GCM,data: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,iv:X6xSygAtem7ekQruSZirdW/LKwf0kw+/Iq35wAcNyyQ=,tag:gRuPBxM5VeoJHimC6sbSow==,type:str]
+attic_netrc: ENC[AES256_GCM,data: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,iv:K5ysCVEvCa0199iu22gANPjq4CRWlYPKq+8jlM5t9e4=,tag:U17SdmXGL+5NbJ4g9MZZEw==,type:str]
 sops:
     age:
         - recipient: age14grjcxaq4h55yfnjxvnqhtswxhj9sfdcvyas4lwvpa8py27pjy2sv3g6v7
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ sops:
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-    lastmodified: "2025-10-14T20:22:06Z"
+    lastmodified: "2025-10-14T21:33:39Z"
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