How to test if Turbo Boost or any other frequency scaling is working using turbostat on Ubuntu 15.10 wily

http://askubuntu.com/questions/43764/how-do-i-get-turbo-boost-working
Try installing turbostat (from the linux-tools package) and run

sudo apt-get install linux-tools

sudo modprobe msr ; sudo turbostat

In a different terminal run

stress -c 1