On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Paweł Staszewski wrote:
> How can I check if Turbo Boost is working with Xeon E5649
>
> I have turbostats that shows:
> pk cr CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %pc3 %pc6
> 56.12 2.67 2.53 43.88 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
^^^^
It is working.
> So 2.67Ghz - but based on Intel spec max Turbo freq. for this cpu is 2.93Ghz
You have too many cores active. You'll have to quiesce 4 cores into C6
to get 2.93GHz[1] out of the remaining 2 cores in the package.
[1]
http://www.intel.de/content/dam/doc/specification-update/xeon-5600-specification-update.pdf
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