I am compeletely new with Unraid and using a trial period to decide if this is the OS to run on my home server. So please excuse me, if my question is silly.

 

The Sever I am using is an old Fujitsu Futro S920 with a AMD GX-415GA CPU. The CPU has 4 cores running at 1500 MHz. When in the dashboard, it shows up as running at 364 MHz, though. Even clicking through the WebUI often shows it at 80%. 

 

At first I thought some BIOS settings were wrong, but I couldn't identify any errors. Starting Unraid on a second machine with the same specs (apard from the amount RAM) did show the exact same behavior. The CPU shows up as running at 364 MHz instead of the 1.5 GHz it should be running at. Therefore, I think that it's not just an hardware failure but something with my BIOS or Unraid settings. 

 

I'd appreaciate any help and will provide any additional information you'd need.

 

What output do you get from:

 

grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo

 

With the CPU idling and at load.

 

 

First of all, thanks for the command line.

 

Here is what I got with the system being idle:

 

cpu MHz         : 1101.202
cpu MHz         : 1393.584
cpu MHz         : 1097.910
cpu MHz         : 1497.220

 

And here when starting 6 docker containers at once:

 

cpu MHz         : 1496.963
cpu MHz         : 1497.161
cpu MHz         : 1497.159
cpu MHz         : 1496.909

 

I guess that means that the frequenzy is just shown incorrectly in the Dashboard. Since it's a cosmetic problem, I am fine with leaving it as is. If someone has a fix, even better.

 

Here is a follow up question. Shouldn't the frequency of the cores be much lower when all the system does is showing the WebUI and managing an mostly empty array of one 1TB USB HDD and an internal 8 GB SSD?

   

Edited December 28, 20232 yr by StarDrifter

2 hours ago, StarDrifter said:

I guess that means that the frequenzy is just shown incorrectly in the Dashboard. Since it's a cosmetic problem

Looks like it.

 

2 hours ago, StarDrifter said:

Here is a follow up question. Shouldn't the frequency of the cores be much lower when all the system does is showing the WebUI and managing an mostly empty array of one 1TB USB HDD and an internal 8 GB SSD?

That will depend on the CPU, and what is the minimum frequency it can throttle down to.