From owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Mon Oct 9 02:42:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD12E460D0 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 02:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (mx1.scaleengine.net [209.51.186.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CB1D7351C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 02:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.1.1.2] (unknown [209.51.186.28]) (Authenticated sender: allanjude.freebsd@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF9FB139FA for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 02:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Xeon Gold 6138's Running FBSD 11.1 and TrueOS Stable [GCC 5.4] To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: From: Allan Jude Message-ID: <43eb65d2-ffed-8216-17f8-7936932e5e0a@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 22:42:01 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aGJ7MF0n9Nu1n75U5Qc5kO1nHWAItgdWC" X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 02:42:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --aGJ7MF0n9Nu1n75U5Qc5kO1nHWAItgdWC Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="M2Em6w51OdwJrXLOVNFsqBSFw66VM3ek3"; protected-headers="v1" From: Allan Jude To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <43eb65d2-ffed-8216-17f8-7936932e5e0a@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xeon Gold 6138's Running FBSD 11.1 and TrueOS Stable [GCC 5.4] References: In-Reply-To: --M2Em6w51OdwJrXLOVNFsqBSFw66VM3ek3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2017-10-08 21:03, grarpamp wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=3D25148 >=20 > While we have tested a number of Linux distributions on Intel's new > Xeon Scalable platform, here are some initial BSD tests using two Xeon > Gold 6138 processors with the Tyan GT24E-B7106 1U barebones server. > FreeBSD 11.1 and the FreeBSD-derivative desktop/workstation-focused > TrueOS (formerly known as PC-BSD) were the primary candidates for > testing. TrueOS stable is currently tracking FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT > development. > When comparing the out-of-the-box performance of FreeBSD/TrueOS and > even with running under the GCC compiler rather than LLVM Clang, the > Linux distributions were offering noticeably better performance on > this dual Intel Xeon Gold server. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freeb= sd.org" >=20 You might want to try enabling turbo boost. sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq=3D9999 This will change the cpu frequency from the default (2000 mhz) to 2001 mhz, which will enable turbo boost (this specific CPU bursts to 3700 mhz), so this will likely make a very large difference in your benchmarks= =2E To get more consistent results, you may actually want to disable turboboost in the bios, and rerun the benchmarks on ALL of the operating systems. --=20 Allan Jude --M2Em6w51OdwJrXLOVNFsqBSFw66VM3ek3-- --aGJ7MF0n9Nu1n75U5Qc5kO1nHWAItgdWC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJZ2uH8AAoJEBmVNT4SmAt+h58QAMkvKDTfJEXe9rRIvPo5CSKs dQc2lQ1fMxO4K+VcVZ/1q10r+qWUc5/lWUGpTvVK2AbV8cR3f6Vfh98QqF/fiFLA pW02vtpFUG9jY+UFxvkV45M5iCw+0KxiclksksF3JTfZNOLJOg4j1K3cgqN2X0Nx vuxSVajspECxQ8jMULmzhwM670nZPFChUjIpZ8gBbEeidHas0iy+vEi12hL9QCbP u7LawzFy2vZDcwstK0ZabM7f9YwAhBlXSMaY17yQgE7dSRyWBoS2jEKRZ35mF+Le W1lsF64GWZYk4VkJrHZlnuxs+BXuo5kNWigQ4nY/eAefyOhNMVWNrH1cBWaan+/h lA7zNDLWWP6uE2ijGCTqtcLT1bKWw+AkAr60rFsYB5ucxchn2KtUGtnfibLkM0vU UlhotR9EPuQInfT71QhTZdV/ZyPZxTv6a/QokKC0A/QpdxnNuja30fCsj/U/A3UE /RIu7FSITauG/QEH5QLus+uSl2LslwhjlZD2qSFEaU7VBsRFkFHo9JFxvuTwJm/J L2dL5sBgI7Vwke0XRYHoW0DGRlSO/wfjHeBOzQv5DLzzvlqiTajWYUxPSKSRjSxC xtc7AgRAQSebVfYxCluYiDQBgX6tJtgVmgVAfNUYmQY4+Yrq4FtpNTNKTCCTv/32 cXYesg1DOWWbMTgMEWGA =THfj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aGJ7MF0n9Nu1n75U5Qc5kO1nHWAItgdWC--