Tuning a Server for Benchmarking

Tuning a Server for Benchmarking david.alvarezrosa.com

Optimizing code starts with measuring it, and a measurement is only useful if it is repeatable: a 2% improvement is invisible under 5% of noise. Yet on an …

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hn9zmdcaou5 days ago

Biggest one for me was pinning CPU frequency and disabling turbo. Otherwise your first run looks great and run ten is 15% slower purely from thermals.

dalvrosa5 days ago

Pinning the frequency is great for reproducibility yeah

For squeezing perf in prod better to overclock (with good cooling)

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