Re: [Beowulf] Problems with Dell M620 and CPU power throttling

2013-09-03 Thread Brice Goglin
Hello, I am seeing messages like this quite often on our R720s in dmesg: CPU16: Core power limit notification (total events = 1) Do you think that's related to your problem? Brice Le 03/09/2013 14:44, Bill Wichser a écrit : > The solution appears to be BIOS configuration. > > We had: >

Re: [Beowulf] Problems with Dell M620 and CPU power throttling

2013-09-03 Thread Bill Wichser
Yes. Especially when you do not see the power limit normal following it. This says that the cores are limited (by power) but never actually receiving enough to then say that they are normal again. We'd see both on ramp up to C0 state. limited then normal; limited then normal. Bill On 09/03

Re: [Beowulf] Problems with Dell M620 and CPU power throttling

2013-09-03 Thread Bill Wichser
The solution appears to be BIOS configuration. We had: < SysProfile=perfoptimized < ;ProcPwrPerf=maxperf < ;ProcC1E=disable < ;ProcCStates=disable And changed to: --- > SysProfile=custom > ProcPwrPerf=osdbpm > ProcC1E=enable > ProcCStates=enable Then added modprobe acpi_cpufreq And we move