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From: Chris Ferron <chris.e.ferron at linux.intel.com>
To: powertop@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [Powertop] Excessive CPU speeds shown in VM
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:33:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB29380.6060901@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LNX.2.01.1205130727180.29600@frira.vanv.qr

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PowerTOP was not intended to run in a Virtual Machine, I would avoid it.


On 05/12/2012 11:03 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Inside a VirtualBox VM, powertop-2.0 shows:
>
>              Package |             Core    |            CPU 0
>                      |                     | Actual    9223372036854.8 GHz
> Idle       100.0%   | Idle       100.0%   | Idle       100.0%
>
>                      |             Core    |            CPU 1
>                      |                     | Actual    9223372036854.8 GHz
>                      | Idle       100.0%   | Idle       100.0%
>
> (powertop-1.13 says "Detailed C-state information is not P-states
> (frequencies)")
>
> I'd certainly love to have such a speedy CPU, though I wonder if the
> laws of physics still hold at 9.2 YHz. lscpu knows more:
>
> Architecture:          x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order:            Little Endian
> CPU(s):                2
> On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
> Thread(s) per core:    1
> Core(s) per socket:    2
> Socket(s):             1
> NUMA node(s):          1
> Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
> CPU family:            6
> Model:                 26
> Stepping:              4
> CPU MHz:               2663.279
> BogoMIPS:              5326.55
> L1d cache:             32K
> L1d cache:             32K
> L2d cache:             6144K
> NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1
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2012-05-15 17:33 Chris Ferron [this message]
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2012-05-13  6:03 [Powertop] Excessive CPU speeds shown in VM Jan Engelhardt

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