CPU not winding down


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Hi everyone! 

 

I have Unraid all set up and am loving it so far, but just have one question.

 

I'm monitoring my CPU frequency using the command 'watch  "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep \"^[c]pu MHz\""' in the terminal, and noticed that my CPU never seems to "wind down" into lower CPU frequencies. It always seems to be above or around the base clock of 3.5GHz. The CPU is an i5 4690k for reference.

 

I double-checked the BIOS and C-States are turned on, power saving is turned on, and voltages and frequencies are set to auto.

 

htop also shows that load average is less than .1 when I am looking at the frequencies, and CPU usage is normally never above 5% per core when it's idling like this.

 

I'm just wondering if this is normal? Normally on Windows machines I can see my CPU go down to 1600mhz or 800mhz when idling, but those Windows machines also didn't have 7 docker containers running.

 

If this is normal, that's fine. I'm just looking to make my system as power efficient where possible.

 

Thanks!

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