While benchmarking Hasura, we noticed Hasura performed better when there was more load on the system. In this blog post we cover basics of processor power management & talk about how we see 50% improvement in latencies by tweaking power management settings.

While benchmarking some tweaks to Hasura we noticed some confusing and misleading/inconsistent results which led us down a bit of a rabbit hole. This is a summary of what we've learned so far, what is left to try, and what we've tried which didn't seem to have much effect.