Oneprovider Dedicated Server - Capped CPU?

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• SpeedBus Member, Host Rep

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  It's most likely not capped, but the CPU most likely is running on a dynamic scheduler that scales up or down the cpu MHz depending on the demand/load on the CPU

  You can grep the "cpu MHz" and see the CPU Freq change every few seconds or simply run a benchmark like geekbench and see if the CPU Mhz goes up.

  if it stays stuck at 1600~ Mhz even during the benchmark, have a look at sensors via the lm_sensors package to see the CPU temps, if the CPU is overheating or similar (though you'd also see warnings under dmesg), as that too can cause the CPU frequency to not scale up.

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• webeast Member

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  @SpeedBus said:
  It's most likely not capped, but the CPU most likely is running on a dynamic scheduler that scales up or down the cpu MHz depending on the demand/load on the CPU

  You can grep the "cpu MHz" and see the CPU Freq change every few seconds or simply run a benchmark like geekbench and see if the CPU Mhz goes up.

  if it stays stuck at 1600~ Mhz even during the benchmark, have a look at sensors via the lm_sensors package to see the CPU temps, if the CPU is overheating or similar (though you'd also see warnings under dmesg), as that too can cause the CPU frequency to not scale up.

  I think you're right. Thank you

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• nqservices Member

  June 2023

  Maybe its on power saving mode. Check and try changing to Performance mode.

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• Shot2 Member

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  Launch two shells
  Run a CPU-intensive task in one shell (e.g. install 7-zip, run 7zz b)
  Watch the CPU speed in another shell (e.g. watch -n1 "grep Hz /proc/cpuinfo")
  Delete your thread on LET (just kidding)

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• moodwriter Member

  June 2023

  This is how you set it on performance mode (on archlinux):

  cpupower frequency-set -r -g performance

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