CPU Turbo mode
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 20:37:20 UTC 2013
On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 30), aurfalien said:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've powerd enabled and see this message often when running powerd -v;
>>
>> current freq 2201 MHz ( 0), wanted freq 4402 MHz
>>
>> Were is the 4402 value gotten from, is it a turbo value and if so, why is
>> it not boosting?
>
> Depending on your settings, powerd will try and raise the clock rate at
> different rates based on system load. 4402 is simply double the current
> clock rate, which probably means your system is busy and powerd is trying to
> quickly raise the clock rate. It doesn't bother capping the target value at
> the maximum, though, since it'll find out a bit later in the code when it
> actually tries to set a new clockrate and realizes that it's already at max.
I found that my CPU, while at 2.2GHz standard can boost to 2.7GHz.
However powerd never shows it at 2.7GHz.
Is there a way to some how get the turbo mode working in FreeBSD?
Its enabled in BIOS.
- aurf
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