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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:05:10 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS - SOLVED
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On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, aurfalien wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, aurfalien wrote:
>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013, at 14:31, aurfalien wrote:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> FreeBSD 10 also has L2ARC compression
>>>>>=20
>>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D251478
>>>>=20
>>>> OMG, what a relief... the ~30% diff in performance was due to a =
BIOS setting, in particular this one;
>>>>=20
>>>> Intel Turbo Boost Technology
>>>> Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Tech
>>>>=20
>>>> I disabled both.
>>>=20
>>> Enable them both and also enable powerd on FreeBSD in /etc/rc.conf =
so it can take advantage of the first.
>>>=20
>>>> In fact, FreeBSD is showing a tad better now then CentOS.  I have =
files if any one is interested in viewing.
>>>=20
>>> With Turbo mode on, it may go even faster.
>>=20
>> Thats interesting, I will and report back.
>>=20
>> Since this will be a rather heavily utilized NFS server (perhaps CIFS =
later), how do I ensure powerd doesn't lullaby the server to sleep or at =
least slow it down during mellow periods?
>=20
> There's the hiadaptive profile, and the polling interval (-p) can be =
reduced from the default of 250ms.  50ms made my desktop a lot more =
responsive.  I also have some patches for a "hyper" mode that only uses =
the fastest and slowest speeds, no slewing.  Mailing list thread here: =
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2013-July/008238.html
>=20
> To date, I have not really found out whether the hyper mode is truly =
better in terms of speed versus power.

Indeed a gold nugget, thanks man.

I will try all this.

- aurf




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