Hello,
I'm trying to compare performances of 2 servers using very similar setups:
Server 1: Xeon E3-1245 v5, Asrock Rack C236WSI motherboard, 2 X 16 Go DDR4 2133 RAM, data pool with 4 X 3 To HDD in raidz, Freenas 11.2-U7
Server 2: Supermicro X10SDV-12C-TLN4F (Xeon D-1557 SoC), 2 X 32 Go DDR4 2133 RAM, data pool with 2 X 500 Go HDD in stripe, Freenas 11.2-U7
On both systems I have Plex installed as a jail (standard Freenas Plex plugin, same version).
I'm running a transcoding task on a 4K video, video is the same on both servers, and Plex transcoding settings are the same on both servers: make my CPU hurt, and transcode very slow (best quality).
Results are very close to each other, here are screenshots a few minutes after launching transcoding task, at the same time:
Server 1
Server 2
A few minutes later, some other screnshots, still at the same time:
Server 1
Server 2
And so on until transcoding is finished... I tried a few different files, and results are always similar. Server 1 is always around 5% to 10% faster than server 2 for the same task.
When looking at CPU usage on Freenas webUI, there is something different between the servers:
Server 1
Server 2
On the Xeon E3-1245 v5, CPU usage is always around 100% while on the Xeon D-1557 it will vary between 50% and 75%.
I was wondering if this is a bug because Freenas won't report CPU usage the same way for the 4 cores 8 threads CPU and for the 12 cores 24 threads CPU, or if it may be a bottleneck because of some power / efficiency related settings in the BIOS?
From results I found on Geekbench, Xeon D-1557 should perform slightly better than Xeon E3-1245 v5 on multi cores tasks: Xeon D-1557 vs Xeon E3-1245 v5 while I can see just the opposite on my tests.
Load average is around 13 13 11 on Server 1:
And around 12 12 11 on Server 2:
Which seems a bit strange since the Xeon D-1557 has much more cores and threads.
BIOS settings on the Xeon D-1557 server are stock, here are CPU settings:
Is there any way I can get this Xeon D-1557 hit 100% CPU usage on transcoding tasks, or is this normal behavior? What do you think?
I'm trying to compare performances of 2 servers using very similar setups:
Server 1: Xeon E3-1245 v5, Asrock Rack C236WSI motherboard, 2 X 16 Go DDR4 2133 RAM, data pool with 4 X 3 To HDD in raidz, Freenas 11.2-U7
Server 2: Supermicro X10SDV-12C-TLN4F (Xeon D-1557 SoC), 2 X 32 Go DDR4 2133 RAM, data pool with 2 X 500 Go HDD in stripe, Freenas 11.2-U7
On both systems I have Plex installed as a jail (standard Freenas Plex plugin, same version).
I'm running a transcoding task on a 4K video, video is the same on both servers, and Plex transcoding settings are the same on both servers: make my CPU hurt, and transcode very slow (best quality).
Results are very close to each other, here are screenshots a few minutes after launching transcoding task, at the same time:
Server 1
Server 2
A few minutes later, some other screnshots, still at the same time:
Server 1
Server 2
And so on until transcoding is finished... I tried a few different files, and results are always similar. Server 1 is always around 5% to 10% faster than server 2 for the same task.
When looking at CPU usage on Freenas webUI, there is something different between the servers:
Server 1
Server 2
On the Xeon E3-1245 v5, CPU usage is always around 100% while on the Xeon D-1557 it will vary between 50% and 75%.
I was wondering if this is a bug because Freenas won't report CPU usage the same way for the 4 cores 8 threads CPU and for the 12 cores 24 threads CPU, or if it may be a bottleneck because of some power / efficiency related settings in the BIOS?
From results I found on Geekbench, Xeon D-1557 should perform slightly better than Xeon E3-1245 v5 on multi cores tasks: Xeon D-1557 vs Xeon E3-1245 v5 while I can see just the opposite on my tests.
Load average is around 13 13 11 on Server 1:
And around 12 12 11 on Server 2:
Which seems a bit strange since the Xeon D-1557 has much more cores and threads.
BIOS settings on the Xeon D-1557 server are stock, here are CPU settings:
Is there any way I can get this Xeon D-1557 hit 100% CPU usage on transcoding tasks, or is this normal behavior? What do you think?