[Beowulf] frequency scaling

[Christopher Samuel]

On 21/09/15 23:18, Mahmood Sayed wrote:

> Nuke it from the bios. It's the only way to be sure. 

Actually it's not as the kernel intel_idle driver will ignore your BIOS
or UEFI settings and try and save power anyway..

We use:

intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=1

as part of our kernel boot options, originally found here some time ago:

http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Mellanox_EN_for_Linux_User_Manual_v2_0-3_0_0.pdf

Best of luck!
Chris
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