Is There a Way to Disable Intel Speedstep on an Ubuntu Server Using a Command Line Application?
We Cannot Disable It Using the Bios, Because Turbo Gets Turned off as Well as a Side Effect (What a Crappy Bios!). I Am Looking for a Simple Command Line Tool...
We cannot disable it using the BIOS, because Turbo gets turned off as well as a side effect (what a crappy BIOS!). I am looking for a simple command line tool for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server that can do this.
I know on Windows, if you set the Power Options to High Performance, SpeedStep is disabled, but how can I do this on Ubuntu Linux using a command line application?
Thanks
1 Answer
To disable SpeedStep, you would run cpufrequtils. It should already be installed on your system if you're running a Gnome desktop. If not you can install it by clicking below
Once you install it, you would run
sudo cpufreq-selector -g performance
However, running the CPU at full speed, may cause it to shutdown after a few minutes.
sudo cpufreq-selector -f <specify speed>
To verify your CPU speed, use the "cat" utility:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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