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    XPS 15 2016 CPU steppings?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by cloud023, Aug 31, 2016.

  1. cloud023

    cloud023 Notebook Guru

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    I was wondering if people could take a look at the XPS 15 w/ Skylake processors under Linux, and post their CPU steppings via this command in bash:

    cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep stepping

    kernel version via:

    uname -r

    and report back if they are experiencing turbo-boost / sleep issues.
     
  2. Aeny

    Aeny Notebook Consultant

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    Code:
    [aeny@Sommerfugl ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep stepping
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    stepping   : 3
    
    [aeny@Sommerfugl ~]$ uname -r
    4.7.2-1-ARCH
    
    [aeny@Sommerfugl ~]$ uptime
     17:22:48 up 3 days, 20:28,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.91, 1.82
    
    I used to have trouble with sleeping, it wouldn't wake up correctly and would need a reset. it's still a bit early but since the last kernel update this issue seems to be resolved for me. I put it to sleep 3 to 4 times per day, meaning that my machine has successfully slept about 12 times in a row.

    Not sure about turbo boost, I run a few VM's on this things without any performance issues.

    ~Aeny