McKnight Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Hey, I have set the CPU Governor via the Tips and Tweeks plugin, however I noticed only one cpu seems to pay attention the other one which has almost no used seems to be stuck at the the full 2.5ghz. I have confirmed this by running: grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 1598.407 cpu MHz : 1598.412 cpu MHz : 1598.415 cpu MHz : 1598.414 cpu MHz : 2530.821 cpu MHz : 2530.819 cpu MHz : 2530.828 cpu MHz : 2530.822 Is this a known bug and is there away around it? Quote Link to comment
dlandon Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 What is the output of the following command? cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 15 hours ago, dlandon said: What is the output of the following command? cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l Thanks for you reply, the output is: root@Odin:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l 8 root@Odin:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor processor : 0 processor : 1 processor : 2 processor : 3 processor : 4 processor : 5 processor : 6 processor : 7 root@Odin:~# Any help would be greatly appericated Quote Link to comment
dlandon Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Tips and Tweaks will set the CPU Governor for all 8 reported CPUs, so it should be working fine. I don't see an issue. Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) 19 minutes ago, dlandon said: Tips and Tweaks will set the CPU Governor for all 8 reported CPUs, so it should be working fine. I don't see an issue. Just checked again, I just cannot think of a reason why the last 4 cpus i.e. socket 2 is running at 2530mhz while the other is always lower. Do you have any other ideas? Edited July 28, 2020 by McKnight Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 2 hours ago, McKnight said: last 4 cpus i.e. socket 2 is this dual socket/physical CPUs? Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 3 hours ago, civic95man said: is this dual socket/physical CPUs? Yep it has two Quad core E6530 cpus on an HP Z800 motherboard, was good fun getting it in a normal ATX case and converting the power. The bios sees both cpus. I don't think unraid is seeing them as separate cpus? Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) No weird setting in the BIOS that handles both CPUs differently ? Did you try you HW on another OS ? Say an ubuntu live and check what is the base speed in that situation ? Edited July 29, 2020 by ChatNoir typo Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 15 hours ago, McKnight said: Yep it has two Quad core E6530 cpus on an HP Z800 motherboard, was good fun getting it in a normal ATX case and converting the power. The bios sees both cpus. This may seem stupid but did you install both CPUs yourself, and I mean verify that they are both E5630? I read somewhere that someone acquired a second hand server with different CPUs fitted - and it still seemed to boot/work. Not even sure it its possible (also ready that the board can work with differing CPUs) so thats why I ask. It may be a long shot 8 hours ago, ChatNoir said: Did you try you HW on another OS ? Say an ubuntu live and check what is the base speed in that situation ? That would be a good starting point to see whats going on Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 23 minutes ago, civic95man said: This may seem stupid but did you install both CPUs yourself, and I mean verify that they are both E5630? I read somewhere that someone acquired a second hand server with different CPUs fitted - and it still seemed to boot/work. Not even sure it its possible (also ready that the board can work with differing CPUs) so thats why I ask. It may be a long shot That would be a good starting point to see whats going on Haha, yeah I did indeed install and confirm the CPUs.. What I'll do is when I get home tonight, I'll check the bios for any werid settings and try and run live ubuntu and report back the CPU states from ubuntu if its the same then I guess unraid isn't the problem. Its a pretty old motherboard so it could just be some strange power saving feature. Will update later Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, McKnight said: Haha, yeah I did indeed install and confirm the CPUs.. What I'll do is when I get home tonight, I'll check the bios for any werid settings and try and run live ubuntu and report back the CPU states from ubuntu if its the same then I guess unraid isn't the problem. Its a pretty old motherboard so it could just be some strange power saving feature. Will update later Just burning ubuntu now, but I played with the bios settings using this as a guide https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/6z2mc2/setting_up_the_hp_z800_workstation_a_work_in/ Anyway after booting in to unraid I get this: Still same issues with cpu power though Will update shortly with ubuntu findings Edited July 29, 2020 by McKnight Quote Link to comment
McKnight Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 On 7/29/2020 at 9:52 PM, McKnight said: Just burning ubuntu now, but I played with the bios settings using this as a guide https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/6z2mc2/setting_up_the_hp_z800_workstation_a_work_in/ Anyway after booting in to unraid I get this: Still same issues with cpu power though Will update shortly with ubuntu findings Believe it or not... Shortly after booting up the ubuntu usb and the motherboard has seemed to give up the ghost. I think the problem was is there were actually 2 different cpus in the server which I was wrong about. Quote Link to comment
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