SPEC CPU2006 Platform Settings for Intel-based systems

Firmware / BIOS / Microcode Settings

cat /proc/cpuinfo:

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 @ 2.00GHz

cat /proc/meminfo:

HugePages_Total: 2048 HugePages_Free: 2048 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

HT DISABLED:

This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to fetch the adjacent cache line within a 128-byte sector that contains the data needed due to a cache line miss. In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.

DCU MODE: ENABLED

This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to fetch the adjacent cache line within a 128-byte sector that contains the data needed due to a cache line miss. In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.

RSS:

ZTE I8300: E5-2650@2.00GHz*2,16GB DDR3 @1600MHz*16