Benchmarking Server Config

BIOS

IRC, Adriaan did

• Load "optimized defaults"
• Disable Hyper-Threading
• Disable "Turbo Mode" (Turbo Boost)

System

scala@scalabench:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.8

scala@scalabench:~$ uname -a
Linux scalabench 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Init System

Debian 8 uses systemd by default.

• systemctl to list all services
• systemctl status cron to show status of a service

Configuration

Some changes done to the system

Disable nfs

• sudo systemctl disable nfs-common
• sudo systemctl disable rpcbind

Disable exim4

sudo systemctl disable exim4

Allow scala to sudo without password

Run sudo visudo and added a line scala ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL (https://askubuntu.com/a/147265).