Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:37:16 -0800 From: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CPU Turbo mode Message-ID: <4A2AEF45-5185-4ED7-98BD-B6975C79A5B9@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131031153757.GG63947@dan.emsphone.com> References: <70EC0F10-FAD0-4EA6-8C1F-A95B1C786B7B@gmail.com> <20131031153757.GG63947@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 30), aurfalien said: >> Hi all, >>=20 >> I've powerd enabled and see this message often when running powerd = -v; >>=20 >> current freq 2201 MHz ( 0), wanted freq 4402 MHz >>=20 >> Were is the 4402 value gotten from, is it a turbo value and if so, = why is >> it not boosting? >=20 > 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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