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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:18:48 -0800
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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Hi,

Sure, I decided to run powerd with the following args;

-a hiadaptive -p 25

And its running rather well.

I will be trying the additional option you mentioned all those moons ago =
next week;

performance_cpu_freq=3D"HIGH"


- aurf

On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi!
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> Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I'd like to understand what's
> going on under the hood.
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> On 22 October 2013 16:40, aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> Would you mind testing out running powerd as suggested? Does that give
> you a performance boost?
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> with this in /etc/rc.conf:
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> performance_cpu_freq=3D"HIGH"
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> Thanks!
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>=20
>=20
> -adrian




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