FreeBSD (amd64) daily use review - OS quest ep. 3

[@henrikas8830]

Thanks for sharing. By any chance you could share the tunables you found fits you?

[@Shiunbird]

I followed Vermaden's wonderful documentation almost to the letter and the system runs butter smooth. Key here is powerd to clock down the processor when needed, with the bonus of you being able to disable turbo boost (or keep the clock locked low) if you so desire. I don't recall setting anything extra in terms of tunables. For my servers, I ran autotune and that was it.

[@Shiunbird]

And you are welcome =)

[@pepeshopping]

I love BSD/Unix as that’s how I started and still use certain products made on top of it. But yes, Linux otherwise as it has more software, options, support and boots faster.

[@Shiunbird]

I don't find boot speed all that relevant - my computers usually stay on sleep and I reboot only for patching. And if you are on open source, there are not many things that won't run. In any case, compared to hard it was to get Linux up and running the first time I tried it back in 1999, a good Linux distro will be basically plug and play. My servers are all on BSD derivatives (TrueNAS, pfsense), and sometimes I run a Linux VM... mostly out of laziness to reinstall once I virtualized my workflows and had services on Linux already configured and running fine. =)

[@msor6108]

ZFS is sooo nice though. On Linux u gotta use a kernel module to get that and the experience with it is just mehh unless you use something like Ubuntu🤮

[@Shiunbird]

@@msor6108 ZFS is legendary. My NAS is on the same pool for 10+ years. Got migrated to two different servers, restored, all disks replaced for more capacity, expanded from 4 to 8 disks via ZFS send/receive. It's a thing of beauty, really. Backing up my FreeBSD laptop is a breeze as well. I'm glad to hear that it is well supported at least in ubuntu.