♡ Eva Winterschön ♡<p>:freebsd_logo: FBSD 14.x Kernel Build :freebsd_logo:</p><p>81 seconds to compile a copy of GENERIC_KCSAN kernel on GhostBSD 24.10 (FreeBSD 14.1 base).</p><p>That's generally acceptable performance for an often silent Micro-ATX workstation (EPYC 4564P 16C/32T, 4.5GHz, 128/ECC, MB: H13SAE-MF). Potential improvements abound, sort of, given two requirements:</p><p>1. Low-dB acoustics, not "pitperf maxxing*"<br>2. Usage for mid-level Ai/ML on VMs for LLMs</p><p>What could be improved? <br>a) Upgrade GPU: 2x A4000 →Ada Gen<br>b) Upgrade NVMe: 2x M.2 PCIe Gen4 → Gen5<br>c) Swap 4x 32GB ECC → 4x 48GB ECC<br>d) Swap 4x DDR5-4800 → DDR5-5200</p><p>Cost/Benefit on those potential upgrades?<br>a) Cost = $$$, Benefit = ~10-25% vector perf<br>b) Cost = $, Benefit = ~1.5x I/O perf<br>c) Cost = $$, Benefit = 128GB → 192GB 🤤 <br>d) Cost = $$$, Benefit = not a big deal</p><p>* PiT-Perf == Point In Time Performance<br>* Maxxing == Engaging in Applied Maximalism</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workstation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/clang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clang</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/llvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llvm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/notGNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notGNU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/perf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perf</span></a></p>