Platform Settings for Altos AMD-based servers

Operating System Tuning Parameters

Free the file system page cache: The command "sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3" is used to free up the filesystem page cache.

Power Policy Quick Settings: Allows the user to set an overall power and performance policy for the system.; The default settings of this option is "Standard".; [Best Performance] Optimization is strongly toward performance, even at the expense of energy efficiency.; [Standard] Weights optimization toward energy conservation, with good performance.; [Power Saving] Optimization is strongly toward energy efficiency
NUMA Nodes Per Socket: Specifies the number of desired NUMA nodes per socket.; [NPS0]Zero will attempt to interleave the two sockets together.; The default settings of this option is "Standard".; [NPS1]Specify one NUMA node per socket; [NPS2]Specify two NUMA nodes per socket; [NPS4]Specify four NUMA nodes per socket; [AUTO]NUMA nodes per socket is determined automatically