Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 12.04 LTS Virtualization AMD Opteron 2384 testing with a TYAN S2927/S2927-E and ATI 9440 on Ubuntu 8.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1203294-SU-KVMPERF8365&grr&rdt .
Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores) TYAN S2927/S2927-E NVIDIA MCP55 4096MB 64GB AGILITY-EX ATI 9440 ATI aa30 AL2223W Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-26-generic (x86_64) GNOME 2.22.3 X Server 1.4.0.90 vesa 1.3.0 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2) GCC 4.2.4 ext3 1400x1050 QEMU Virtual 0.9.1 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores) QEMU Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 3072MB 34GB QEMU HDD Cirrus Logic GD 5446 Qumranet 1000 cirrus 1.1.0 1280x800 QEMU 0.9.1 AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores) TYAN S2927/S2927-E NVIDIA MCP55 4096MB 64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB ATI R6xx HDMI AL2223W Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.8.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 ext4 1680x1050 QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.70GHz (4 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 3072MB 31GB LLVMpipe Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device Unity 2D 5.8.0 cirrus 1.3.2 1024x768 QEMU 1.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu -v - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu -v - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,go --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v - KVM Matching Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,go --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v Disk Details - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr - KVM Matching Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr System Details - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. - KVM Matching Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ.
vpxenc: vpxenc x264: H.264 Video Encoding nginx: Static Web Page Serving apache: Static Web Page Serving npb: SP.A npb: LU.A npb: FT.B openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples nero2d: Total Time minion: Solitaire minion: Bibd encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 encode-flac: WAV To FLAC compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression c-ray: Total Time build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search john-the-ripper: Blowfish compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver graphics-magick: Resizing ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping postmark: Disk Transaction Performance dbench: 1 Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 24126.43 17699.96 3045.55 4773.80 3975.10 50.85 230 1091.98 275.88 313.71 27.86 10.48 17.04 117.65 158.46 13.06 29.80 3043 7843 437.66 86 13.16 775 75.16 12602.44 8852.98 2826.90 4517.79 3759.43 50.35 232 1109.09 319.55 337.88 28.09 10.63 17.82 118.56 172.22 13.97 30.20 2895 7188 422.45 78 10.24 337 138.41 14.20 61.21 24692.23 22303.30 2925.72 5098.80 3451.39 51.28 212 822.03 269.32 291.44 26.07 10.00 17.86 103.60 153.02 11.58 22.16 3177 8415 505.28 89 62.10 85.30 13.48 58.02 20712.61 14889.63 2706.32 4728.36 3317.71 50.90 214 825.72 302.39 311.36 26.18 10.05 18.61 104.67 170.28 12.89 23.51 3060 7321 506.97 83 19.21 812 56.52 OpenBenchmarking.org
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 14.20 13.48 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -lvpx -lm -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 61.21 58.02
NGINX Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 21.18, N = 3 SE +/- 118.77, N = 3 SE +/- 33.69, N = 3 SE +/- 320.14, N = 3 24126.43 24692.23 12602.44 20712.61 1. (CC) gcc options: -lpthread -lcrypt -lcrypto -lz
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 193.33, N = 3 SE +/- 37.99, N = 3 SE +/- 79.71, N = 3 SE +/- 150.32, N = 3 17699.96 22303.30 8852.98 14889.63 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lm -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 1.67, N = 3 SE +/- 2.75, N = 3 SE +/- 10.14, N = 3 SE +/- 30.70, N = 3 3045.55 2925.72 2826.90 2706.32 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 15.90, N = 3 SE +/- 34.99, N = 3 SE +/- 65.83, N = 6 4773.80 5098.80 4517.79 4728.36 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 1.87, N = 3 SE +/- 3.97, N = 3 SE +/- 5.24, N = 3 SE +/- 2.02, N = 3 3975.10 3451.39 3759.43 3317.71 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.03, N = 4 SE +/- 0.05, N = 4 SE +/- 0.16, N = 4 SE +/- 0.17, N = 4 50.85 51.28 50.35 50.90 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 230 212 232 214 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Open FMM Nero2D Total Time Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 1091.98 822.03 1109.09 825.72 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 SE +/- 0.11, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 1.05, N = 3 275.88 269.32 319.55 302.39 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lz -lbz2
Minion Benchmark: Bibd Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 2.31, N = 3 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 1.49, N = 3 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 313.71 291.44 337.88 311.36 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lz -lbz2
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.04, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 27.86 26.07 28.09 26.18
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.05, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 10.48 10.00 10.63 10.05 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lm
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 17.04 17.86 17.82 18.61 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lpthread -lbz2
C-Ray Total Time Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 117.65 103.60 118.56 104.67 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.72, N = 3 SE +/- 0.89, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 1.91, N = 3 158.46 153.02 172.22 170.28
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.36, N = 6 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 6 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 13.06 11.58 13.97 12.89 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.91, N = 6 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 6 29.80 22.16 30.20 23.51 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 14.18, N = 3 SE +/- 52.01, N = 4 3043 3177 2895 3060 1. (CC) gcc options: -fopenmp -lcrypt
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 154.17, N = 3 SE +/- 25.01, N = 3 SE +/- 122.84, N = 4 SE +/- 44.86, N = 3 7843 8415 7188 7321 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 110 220 330 440 550 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 SE +/- 2.50, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 1.57, N = 3 437.66 505.28 422.45 506.97 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 1.25, N = 4 86 89 78 83 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 13.16 62.10 10.24 19.21 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -lSDL -lstdc++
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 56.24, N = 10 SE +/- 17.15, N = 10 SE +/- 9.59, N = 10 775 337 812
Dbench Client Count: 1 Bare Metal KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest KVM Matching Guest OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.66, N = 3 SE +/- 1.98, N = 6 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 1.10, N = 6 75.16 85.30 138.41 56.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -lpopt
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