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ack-fin

New Member

Registered: 2012-10-30

Posts: 8

Phoronix issue

This issue may be independant of the release but I'm unsure.  I recently installed a daily snapshot on a Dell Precision M6400 Laptop Workstation, 64bit, Core 2 Quad Extreme 2.53GHz, 12GB RAM.  Everything is up to date.  I just upgraded my CPU to the Quad from a Core 2 Duo 2.53 and noticed that it's only running at 1.6GHz so as part of my research I decided to install Phoronix-Test-Suite from the repos.  Keep in mind that I've never used Phoronix before.  It's my understanding that opening it from a terminal brings up a GUI but not for me.  When I enter phoronix-test-suite I get text in return; listing TEST INSTALLATION, TESTING, BATCH TESTING, OPENBENCHMARKING.ORG, etc. with sub-topics.  This is OK with me as i don't mind cli stuff at all.  The issue is every command returns me a several lines of this: [NOTICE] Array to string conversion in pts_client.php:1320 before it actually does what I was asking it to do.  Even when just entering phoronix-test-suite.  Do any of you have any idea what's going on here?  Is there any more information you need before you can point me in the direction I need to go to get to the bottom of this?

mynis01

#! Die Hard

From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 1,717

Re: Phoronix issue

Not sure, why you're getting this error, but you really don't need phoronoix-test-suite to check how fast your cpu is running. If cpufreq-utils or cpupower is running, it will throttle your clock speed when your CPU isn't being fully utilized. There are several command line tools out there you can use to check your clock speed, like hwinfo and inxi. Try installing hwinfo and run

hwinfo --cpu

. If you want to see your CPU's current clock speed displayed on the desktop, you can add a line like the following to ~/.conkyrc

CPU Frequency: ${alignr}${freq_g 1}/${freq_g 2}/${freq_g 3}/${freq_g 4}GHz

ack-fin

New Member

Registered: 2012-10-30

Posts: 8

Re: Phoronix issue

Excellent, thanks for the info.  I got the 240w PSU today and now the CPU is scaling from 1.6 to 2.53 perfectly.  Apparently there just wasn't enough watts for it before or I wasn't reading the output of cpufreq-info.  It does appear that the gui has improved 'snappiness' now and boot times also seem much improved.  Luckily I have just enough room in conky for that line and I'll make use of it.