From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 1 22:29:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4321D7 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:29:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carl@freebsd.org) Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A19F64B for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2013 15:29:37 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,387,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="221600767" Received: from crdelsey-fbsd.ch.intel.com (HELO [10.2.105.127]) ([10.2.105.127]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2013 15:29:36 -0700 Message-ID: <515A0A50.3040801@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:29:36 -0700 From: Carl Delsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130115 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End of test sessions [Was Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 119, Issue 9] References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:29:47 -0000 On 03/31/13 14:52, Davide D'Amico wrote: > > Hi, thanks for your support and ideas but I have to stop my test > sessions because I need to use my pair of servers in production (and > very quickly, too), so at this moment they'll remain fbsd 9.1 :) > I figure I'll throw this out since you may still be able to check this on a system in production, and it is easy to check. I noticed in your dmesg output the lines "CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized." Are you running powerd? I wasn't on a system and found that the CPU was defaulting to the lowest speed step settings. I was seeing less than half the performance compared to Linux on my performance tests. Check the output of sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq and see if the reported frequency is what it should be for your processor (2500). If not, just enabling powerd may solve your problem. Thanks, Carl