cpupower-frequency-info1
Utility to retrieve cpufreq kernel information
Usage
cpupower [-c
cpulist]
frequency-info
[options]
Overview
A small tool which prints out cpufreq information helpful to developers and interested users.
Options
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-e --debug -
Prints out debug information.
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-f --freq -
Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, according to the cpufreq core.
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-w --hwfreq -
Get frequency the CPU currently runs at, by reading it from hardware (only available to root).
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-l --hwlimits -
Determine the minimum and maximum CPU frequency allowed.
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-d --driver -
Determines the used cpufreq kernel driver.
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-p --policy -
Gets the currently used cpufreq policy.
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-g --governors -
Determines available cpufreq governors.
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-b --boost -
Gets the current boost state support.
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-z --epp -
Gets the current EPP (energy performance preference).
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-r --related-cpus -
Determines which CPUs run at the same hardware frequency.
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-a --affected-cpus -
Determines which CPUs need to have their frequency coordinated by software.
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-s --stats -
Shows cpufreq statistics if available.
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-y --latency -
Determines the maximum latency on CPU frequency changes.
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-o --proc -
Prints out information like provided by the /proc/cpufreq interface in 2.4. and early 2.6. kernels.
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-m --human -
human-readable output for the -f, -w, -s and -y parameters.
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-n --no-rounding -
Output frequencies and latencies without rounding off values.
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-c --performance -
Get performances and frequencies capabilities of CPPC, by reading it from hardware (only available on the hardware with CPPC).
- By default only values of core zero are displayed. How to display settings of
Remarks
other cores is described in the cpupower(1) manpage in the --cpu option section.
You can't specify more than one of the output specific options -o -e -a -g -p -d -l -w -f -y.
You also can't specify the -o option combined with the -c option.
Files
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ /proc/cpufreq (deprecated) /proc/sys/cpu/ (deprecated)
Releases
6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.
--boost since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--epp since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--performance since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-b since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-c since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-r since Debian 13 (Trixie);
-z since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.
--perf until Debian 13 (Trixie).