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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:24:37 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS - SOLVED
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On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Well, the 30% diff in performance due to those two intel CPU options =
means that somehow the scheduler and power management stuff in FreeBSD =
isn't playing with turbo boost / speedstep.
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> So yeah, figuring out why would be nice.

Ditto.

I never enabled powerd in FreeBSD9 or 10.  Unsure what the default =
position is.

In CentOS, I usually just set a diff BIOS feature as disabled or =
performance depending on what the options are.

On this server, it had acoustic/performance/balance as well as well as =
that CPU option which threw me off.

- aurf


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> -adrian
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> On 22 October 2013 16:40, aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
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> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013, at 14:31, aurfalien wrote:
> >>
> >> ZoL comes with a little interesting feature; arc2 compression, =
which does
> >> seem to enhance performance all around.  I disabled this in CentOS =
to
> >> level the playing field.
> >>
> >
> > FreeBSD 10 also has L2ARC compression
> >
> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D251478
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> OMG, what a relief... the ~30% diff in performance was due to a BIOS =
setting, in particular this one;
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> Intel Turbo Boost Technology
> Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Tech
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> I disabled both.
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> In fact, FreeBSD is showing a tad better now then CentOS.  I have =
files if any one is interested in viewing.
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> Thanks to all for the rather overwhelming response :)
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> Actually it was good that hardly any one did as it forced me to debug =
the old fashioned way :)
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> - aurf
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