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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Florian Unglaub <ueber@roladder.net>
Subject: Re: Intel turbo mode support
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Christer Solskogen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Florian Unglaub <ueber@roladder.net> wrote:
>> I tried it with your powerd flags and the performance_cpu_freq setting
>> on HIGH, but still the maximum freq_levels entry is 2800.
>>
>
> How far should it go, then?

The highest speed will be one higher than the nominal rating:

   dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 5801/300000 5800/300000 ...

The second one is the nominal speed, the first is turbo.
dev.cpu.0.freq shows the current speed:

   dev.cpu.0.freq: 5801