I have had a great time setting up my UnRaid server and going through all your videos Gridrunner, they have made the setup and tweaking process a joy
All tips work great for me except ISOLCPUS which dramatically reduced performance in my case (by dropping 1 core it seems). Has anyone seen this before?
I have three cores and 6 threads pinned to my gaming VM which gives good benchmarks in aida64. When I put ISOLCPUs on, the score plummeted by 30-50% and only used two cores while running the test (before it used all three it had pinned).
This is a Threadripper system so it has two memory controllers and other semi exotic features. Perhaps the memory score is going down because it's losing access to a core (less access to memory), which is born out by the CPU usage I'm seeing also. But why ISOLCPUS loses me a core, I do not know.
This gives a aida64 cache and memory result of:
Now, with those CPUS isolated as follows:
I get this:
and a peak at system status while it's running show that only 2 cores are being used. The same test without ISOLCPUS used all 3 of the cores and gained a better score.
Any thoughts?
I also would like to know what test others are running here, it's not clear to me if there's any popular testing tools that this forum generally uses.
