Ubuntu 8.04.4, 10.04.4, 2.04 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/1203302-SU-LUCIDLYNX79 .
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 Matching Guest KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 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 AMD Radeon HD 4870 256MB ATI R6xx HDMI AL2223W Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32-38-generic (x86_64) GNOME 2.30.2 X Server 1.7.6 radeon 6.13.0 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1 GCC 4.4.3 ext4 1680x1050 64GB AGILITY-EX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB 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 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 Qumranet 1002 Cirrus Logic GD 5446 Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW Qumranet 1000 Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-26-generic (x86_64) GNOME 2.22.3 X Server 1.4.0.90 cirrus 1.1.0 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2) GCC 4.2.4 ext3 1280x800 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 Matching 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 - 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 10.04.4 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-multiarch --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=i486 --with-tune=generic -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 - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 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 Disk Details - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - KVM Matching Guest: 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 10.04.4 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,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 - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw System Details - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. - KVM Matching Guest: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. - Bare Metal: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. - 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. - KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ.
dbench: 1 postmark: Disk Transaction Performance ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping graphics-magick: Resizing himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test john-the-ripper: Blowfish hmmer: Pfam Database Search mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile c-ray: Total Time compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression encode-flac: WAV To FLAC encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 minion: Bibd minion: Solitaire nero2d: Total Time smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance npb: FT.B npb: LU.A npb: SP.A apache: Static Web Page Serving nginx: Static Web Page Serving x264: H.264 Video Encoding vpxenc: vpxenc Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Bare Metal KVM Matching Guest KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 75.16 775 13.16 86 437.66 7843 3043 29.80 13.06 158.46 117.65 17.04 10.48 27.86 313.71 275.88 1091.98 230 50.85 3975.10 4773.80 3045.55 17699.96 24126.43 138.41 337 10.24 78 422.45 7188 2895 30.20 13.97 172.22 118.56 17.82 10.63 28.09 337.88 319.55 1109.09 232 50.35 3759.43 4517.79 2826.90 8852.98 12602.44 138.41 337 10.24 78 422.45 7188 2895 30.20 13.97 172.22 118.56 17.82 10.63 28.09 337.88 319.55 1109.09 232 50.35 3759.43 4517.79 2826.90 8852.98 12602.44 76.98 52.06 90 460.24 8486 3043 22.73 13.15 163.64 112.38 17.62 9.93 26.14 297.66 281.51 825.31 222 50.88 3714.45 4554.18 2949.86 19890.83 25105.40 13.97 85.30 62.10 89 505.28 8415 3177 22.16 11.58 153.02 103.60 17.86 10.00 26.07 291.44 269.32 822.03 212 51.28 3451.39 5098.80 2925.72 22303.30 24692.23 61.21 14.20 56.52 812 19.21 83 506.97 7321 3060 23.51 12.89 170.28 104.67 18.61 10.05 26.18 311.36 302.39 825.72 214 50.90 3317.71 4728.36 2706.32 14889.63 20712.61 58.02 13.48 24.25 165 6.12 79 421.56 6972 2884 30.48 14.13 231.16 18.56 10.62 28.09 347.66 319.00 234 50.38 3699.87 4475.13 2830.05 7792.47 11211.15 OpenBenchmarking.org
Dbench Client Count: 1 Min Avg Max Bare Metal 75.2 79.1 85.3 KVM Matching Guest 56.5 97.5 138.4 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 24.3 81.3 138.4 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 30 60 90 120 150
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance Min Avg Max Bare Metal 775 775 775 KVM Matching Guest 337 575 812 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 165 251 337 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
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Min Avg Max Bare Metal 13.2 42.4 62.1 KVM Matching Guest 10.2 14.7 19.2 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 6.1 8.2 10.2 OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing Min Avg Max Bare Metal 86.0 88.3 90.0 KVM Matching Guest 78.0 80.5 83.0 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 78.0 78.5 79.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver Min Avg Max Bare Metal 437.7 467.7 505.3 KVM Matching Guest 422.5 464.7 507.0 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 421.6 422.0 422.5 OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 130 260 390 520 650
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test Min Avg Max Bare Metal 7843 8248 8486 KVM Matching Guest 7188 7255 7321 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 6972 7080 7188 OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K
John The Ripper Test: Blowfish Min Avg Max Bare Metal 3043 3088 3177 KVM Matching Guest 2895 2978 3060 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 2884 2890 2895 OpenBenchmarking.org Real C/S, More Is Better John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 800 1600 2400 3200 4000
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search Min Avg Max Bare Metal 22.2 24.9 29.8 KVM Matching Guest 23.5 26.9 30.2 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 30.2 30.3 30.5 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 9 18 27 36 45
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment Min Avg Max Bare Metal 11.6 12.6 13.2 KVM Matching Guest 12.9 13.4 14.0 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 14.0 14.1 14.1 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4 8 12 16 20
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile Min Avg Max Bare Metal 153.0 158.4 163.6 KVM Matching Guest 170.3 171.3 172.2 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 172.2 201.7 231.2 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 50 100 150 200 250
C-Ray Total Time Min Avg Max Bare Metal 103.6 111.2 117.7 KVM Matching Guest 104.7 111.6 118.6 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 118.6 118.6 118.6 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 40 80 120 160 200
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression Min Avg Max Bare Metal 17.0 17.5 17.9 KVM Matching Guest 17.8 18.2 18.6 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 17.8 18.2 18.6 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5 10 15 20 25
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC Min Avg Max Bare Metal 9.9 10.1 10.5 KVM Matching Guest 10.1 10.3 10.6 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 10.6 10.6 10.6 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4 8 12 16 20
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 Min Avg Max Bare Metal 26.1 26.7 27.9 KVM Matching Guest 26.2 27.1 28.1 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 28.1 28.1 28.1 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 9 18 27 36 45
Minion Benchmark: Bibd Min Avg Max Bare Metal 291.4 300.9 313.7 KVM Matching Guest 311.4 324.6 337.9 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 337.9 342.8 347.7 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 80 160 240 320 400
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire Min Avg Max Bare Metal 269.3 275.6 281.5 KVM Matching Guest 302.4 311.0 319.6 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 319.0 319.3 319.6 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 70 140 210 280 350
Open FMM Nero2D Total Time Min Avg Max Bare Metal 822 913 1092 KVM Matching Guest 826 967 1109 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 1109 1109 1109 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Min Avg Max Bare Metal 212.0 221.3 230.0 KVM Matching Guest 214.0 223.0 232.0 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 232.0 233.0 234.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 60 120 180 240 300
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance Min Avg Max Bare Metal 50.9 51.0 51.3 KVM Matching Guest 50.4 50.6 50.9 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 50.4 50.4 50.4 OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 15 30 45 60 75
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B Min Avg Max Bare Metal 3451 3714 3975 KVM Matching Guest 3318 3539 3759 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 3700 3730 3759 OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A Min Avg Max Bare Metal 4554 4809 5099 KVM Matching Guest 4518 4623 4728 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 4475 4496 4518 OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A Min Avg Max Bare Metal 2926 2974 3046 KVM Matching Guest 2706 2767 2827 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 2827 2828 2830 OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 800 1600 2400 3200 4000
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Min Avg Max Bare Metal 17700 19965 22303 KVM Matching Guest 8853 11871 14890 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 7792 8323 8853 OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K
NGINX Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Min Avg Max Bare Metal 24126 24641 25105 KVM Matching Guest 12602 16658 20713 KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Guest 11211 11907 12602 OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K
x264 H.264 Video Encoding Min Avg Max Bare Metal 61.2 61.2 61.2 KVM Matching Guest 58.0 58.0 58.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc Min Avg Max Bare Metal 14.0 14.1 14.2 KVM Matching Guest 13.5 13.5 13.5 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 5 10 15 20 25
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4