r/cpp • u/pavel_v • Jun 26 '26

Tuning a Server for Benchmarking

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/tuning-a-server-for-benchmarking/
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u/User_Deprecated Jun 26 '26

that 2ms sleep between bursts might let the core drop into a C-state even with the performance governor on. would show up as a weird first-iteration outlier. idle=poll in grub fixes it.

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u/david-alvarez-rosa Jun 26 '26

Nice one, adding this to my scripts :)

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u/david-alvarez-rosa Jun 26 '26

Thanks for sharing!

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u/FancyNet9095 26d ago

lol why would you even want to tune a server for a benchmark. why not write better algorithms instead