On 14/8/17 3:08PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Again, the documentation lags reality. The default was changed for 11.0. It 
> is still conservative. In ALMOST all cases, Cmax will yield the bast results. 
> However, on large systems with many cores, Cmax will trigger very poor 
> results, so the default is C2, just to be safe.
> 
> As far as possible TSC impact, I think older processors had TSC issues when 
> not all cores ran with the same clock speed. That said, I am not remotely 
> expert on such issues, so don't take this too seriously.

Thanks Kevin

What does 'large' and 'many cores' mean here? Is 24 cores large or small? For a 
server do we ever want the CPU to enter states other than C1?


Ari


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