Should I enable autotuning and powerd?

[ezekiel.incorrigible]

My FreeNAS install is up and running and powering the office - I notice that powerd and autotuning are disabled by default so presumably there is some disadvantage to having them on - why is this? Should I enable them?

 

[Ericloewe]

Powerd should be fine. Autotune, no.

 

[Chris Moore]

Powerd should be fine. Autotune, no.

What is powerd good for?

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[wblock]

powerd, with appropriate settings, saves power while the CPU is not busy, but also enables Turbo mode on Intel processors and can improve performance on CPU-intensive jobs.

 

[Chris Moore]

powerd, with appropriate settings, saves power while the CPU is not busy, but also enables Turbo mode on Intel processors and can improve performance on CPU-intensive jobs.

If turbo doesn't work without it, it seems like an important thing to turn it on.
Thanks.


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[ezekiel.incorrigible]

Powerd should be fine. Autotune, no.

Why not autotune? What are the drawbacks?

 

[Ericloewe]

Because autotune never really worked very well, in a nutshell.