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Bohs Hansen
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usually that way (plus i got the same board), very rare with consumer boards that support ECC
usually that way (plus i got the same board), very rare with consumer boards that support ECC
Glad I posted and you caught it. :)
Is the PCI-E slot still borked on your mb?
Enabling or disabling powerd (Power Saving Daemon) in GUI doesn't make any difference in power consumption, at least on my configuration. That leads me to believe that Cool 'n Quiet isn't supported.Thanks for that impressions of your Systems. I will bought a Asus E35M1-I Motherboard to change from an "old" core duo. First there ist no support for speedstep or it is not running for my CPU cores to reduce power consumption. So, second I would lik to know, if freenas 8 can handle cool 'n' quiet to reduce the cpu frequencies or is their the same problem as the intel core Cpu. Im interested in this board due to the six Sata-ports and low power.
Thanks
Actually it runs with powerd enabled. I think the CPU throttling runs only on CPU 0 and not on CPU 1, because even when I log in the Freenas with ssh, i can grep the CPU action for both cores, but I only see the frequency of the CPU 0 and that they have several power states or throttling steps. And for my surprise, the cpu 0 frequency is fluctuant between 433 and 2400. But I think that is the throttling range and not the speedstep range, because the power consumption in each state is always the same.
Can anybody of you post your result of this "sysctl -a | grep cpu" please!
freenas# sysctl -a | grep cpu kern.ccpu: 0 <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> kern.smp.cpus: 2 kern.smp.maxcpus: 32 debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 debug.kdb.stop_cpus: 1 hw.ncpu: 2 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 security.jail.param.cpuset.id: 0 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.P001 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 400 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/4940 1400/4322 1280/3217 1120/2814 960/2412 800/1382 700/1209 600/1036 500/863 400/691 300/518 200/345 100/172 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 294us dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.P002 dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 42us dev.acpi_perf.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.acpi_perf.1.%parent: cpu1 dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.cpufreq.0.%driver: cpufreq dev.cpufreq.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.hwpstate.0.%parent: cpu0
LOL I am such a beginner in these things... Okay so only CPU 0 is throttling at the moment? Is there a way to enable throttling on CPU 1 too?
Anyway, this is what I get:
Code:freenas# sysctl -a | grep cpu kern.ccpu: 0 <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> kern.smp.cpus: 2 kern.smp.maxcpus: 32 debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 debug.kdb.stop_cpus: 1 hw.ncpu: 2 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 security.jail.param.cpuset.id: 0 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.P001 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 400 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/4940 1400/4322 1280/3217 1120/2814 960/2412 800/1382 700/1209 600/1036 500/863 400/691 300/518 200/345 100/172 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 294us dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.P002 dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 42us dev.acpi_perf.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.acpi_perf.1.%parent: cpu1 dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.cpufreq.0.%driver: cpufreq dev.cpufreq.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.hwpstate.0.%parent: cpu0
Erebus# sysctl -a | grep cpu kern.ccpu: 0 <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> <cpu count="2" mask="0x3">0, 1</cpu> kern.smp.cpus: 2 kern.smp.maxcpus: 32 debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 debug.kdb.stop_cpus: 1 hw.ncpu: 2 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 security.jail.param.cpuset.id: 0 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.P001 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 1600 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/4940 1400/4322 1280/3217 1120/2814 960/2412 800/1382 700/1209 600/1036 500/863 400/691 300/518 200/345 100/172 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 214us dev.cpu.1.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.1.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.1.%location: handle=\_PR_.P002 dev.cpu.1.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.1.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/100 dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 35us dev.acpi_perf.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.acpi_perf.1.%parent: cpu1 dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.cpufreq.0.%driver: cpufreq dev.cpufreq.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.hwpstate.0.%parent: cpu0
FreeNAS Version: FreeNAS-8.0-RELEASE-amd64
Case: Lian-li PC-Q08B
PSU: Corsair 430W v2
Motherboard: Asus E35M1-I DELUXE
Memory: 2x 4GB P.SKILL
Boot Device: Sandisk 4GB USB
Network Card(s): Internal Realtek 8111E
Expansion Card(s): -
Disk(s): 4x Hitachi 5K3000 Desktstar
Configuration: RAID-Z1
Performance:
AFP: manual copy of 5.5GB file = ~41MB/s write and ~65MB/s read
Issues:
Help! My biggest issue is that my system will not boot properly - I have to manually choose the boot device by hitting F8 after post. Has anyone had this issue before? I'm not sure if I have stuffed up the USB stick, but I've tried it with two different USBs, with the same results...It goes into BIOS and displays the USB correctly, but I cannot choose it in the boot priority. I can only load Freenas by choosing boot override. I've tried setting the USB as HDD, floppy, Forced floppy, CD-ROM etc...Can anyone assist.
As a second issue - can anyone comment on my performance speeds? I was hoping for a bit faster...
Thanks!
Chris
Set the USB as HDD. Have you set up hdd boot priority from BIOS?
In BIOS setup (Advanced mode) first you need to go to:
Boot tab -> Hard drive BBS priorities (scroll down to the bottom) -> select your USB stick as Boot option #1
Then go back to boot tab main view and set your Boot option priorities.
As to the performance, to me it looks like the AFP service is single threaded and its performance is limited by the CPU. Try doing two files simultaneously and you'll probably get faster total transfer speed.
Set the USB as HDD. Have you set up hdd boot priority from BIOS?
In BIOS setup (Advanced mode) first you need to go to:
Boot tab -> Hard drive BBS priorities (scroll down to the bottom) -> select your USB stick as Boot option #1
Then go back to boot tab main view and set your Boot option priorities.
As to the performance, to me it looks like the AFP service is single threaded and its performance is limited by the CPU. Try doing two files simultaneously and you'll probably get faster total transfer speed.
The problem was that the BBS priorities option is a page down from the rest of the boot priorities options - I didn't even know it was there....
Proving only that if you make something idiot-proof a better idiot will come along! Thank you thank you thank you! Fixed!
The problem was that the BBS priorities option is a page down from the rest of the boot priorities options - I didn't even know it was there - I just kept trying to find different options under boot option priorities...thanks very very much JimmyS - I feel stupid, but at least it's fixed!