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Re:FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014 by danford on Thursday April 17, 2014 @08:59PM (#7607444)
I wasn't using zfs at the time and I didn't do much comparison with CPU and IO, I used a wattage meter. I followed the FreeBSD guide (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ac...) and tried just about everything. My Linux box was running at about 9watts (idle) and freeBSD started out at around 18, but I got it down to about 12watts after making a lot of optimizations.

I think most of the difference is because FreeBSD is using older more stable software, and the Ubuntu server was running some of the latest software.

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Re:FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014 by takeda on Friday April 18, 2014 @03:28AM (#7608290)
Do you remember which FreeBSD version and which Linux kernel version was it?

Linux had tickless kernel + CPU scaling for a while. FreeBSD is lagging in this aspect.

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Re:FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014 by profquail on Friday April 18, 2014 @04:44AM (#7608486)
The FreeBSD kernel is tickless as of FreeBSD 10:

http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/09/20/freebsd-10s-new-techno...

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Re:FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014 by takeda on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:31AM (#7609253)
Yes, exactly, it only has it for couple of months, that's why I asked about version.
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