Re: RELENG_13 and min cpu frequency

In reply to: Ian Smith : "Re: RELENG_13 and min cpu frequency"
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From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:46:55 UTC

On 11/25/2022 10:27 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> Interrupting the flow of this thread with some possibly pertinent info:
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hwpstate_intel-issue-seems-to-be-fixed.87205/
>
> There are 3 possibly useful links in that post, the first to a forum search of related topics, second a link to intel's 12th-gen processor manual and thirdly a PR from Feb 2021 mostly to do with problems on Thinkpads with this setting, but with perhaps useful clues in the general case, ie your Xeon?

Interesting about the P-state. I noticed in my SuperMicro BIOS on the 
Xeon, its default is to have it disabled. I never tried turning it on to 
see what impact if any it had.  For my case, the NIC overflows are now 
zero for 3 days straight which makes me happy :)

     ---Mike