Ubuntu 8.04 Linux Performance Vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 Simple comparison of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS versus Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and an Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshot x86 running on a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Core Duo T2400 CPU. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 8.04 Linux Performance Vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Development Latest Intel T2400 @ 1.83GHz (2 Cores) LENOVO 2613EJU Intel Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS + ICH7-M 1024MB 80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00 128MB 128MBMB Intel 82801G Intel 82573L Gigabit + Intel PRO/Wireless Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-26-generic (i686) GNOME 2.22.3 X Server 1.4.0.90 fglrx 8.47.3 2.1.7412 GCC 4.2.4 ext3 1400x1050 AMD ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 128MB Analog Devices AD1981 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-23-generic-pae (i686) Unity 5.10.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 ext4 Ubuntu 12.10 3.5.0-999-generic (i686) Unity 5.12.0 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-17e0472) Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.0-6ubuntu3 + LLVM 3.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: --build=i486-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-targets=all --enable-threads=posix --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu -v - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: --build=i686-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-targets=all --enable-threads=posix --host=i686-linux-gnu --target=i686-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v - Development Latest: --build=i686-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-targets=all --enable-threads=posix --host=i686-linux-gnu --target=i686-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v Disk Details - Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr - Development Latest: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw Processor Details - Scaling Governor: ondemand System Details - Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.
Ubuntu 8.04 Linux Performance Vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 postmark: Disk Transaction Performance npb: LU.A npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping x264: H.264 Video Encoding himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test c-ray: Total Time compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples encode-mp3: WAV To MP3 openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance apache: Static Web Page Serving Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Development Latest 100 885.01 837.29 818.75 4.61 7.53 413.88 2064 638.43 73.39 902 49.30 7.88 7832.70 112 949.19 904.39 877.28 4.93 17.81 13.46 480.84 2281 532.91 74.53 850 45.25 7.90 7322.40 100 954.05 907.97 874.16 4.85 16.24 13.41 520.69 2258 337.16 67.44 843 46.14 7.90 7360.78 OpenBenchmarking.org
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.20, N = 5 SE +/- 0.37, N = 5 SE +/- 1.26, N = 5 100 112 100
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 2.31, N = 3 SE +/- 4.07, N = 3 SE +/- 1.19, N = 3 954.05 949.19 885.01 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 0.90, N = 3 SE +/- 0.53, N = 3 SE +/- 1.18, N = 3 907.97 904.39 837.29 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.54, N = 3 SE +/- 0.96, N = 3 SE +/- 2.97, N = 3 874.16 877.28 818.75 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 1.1093 2.2186 3.3279 4.4372 5.5465 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 6 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 4.85 4.93 4.61 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 16.24 17.81 7.53 -flto -mrecip -flto -mrecip 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -msse -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -lSDL -lstdc++
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 13.41 13.46
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 110 220 330 440 550 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.84, N = 3 520.69 480.84 413.88 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 7.36, N = 3 SE +/- 8.25, N = 3 SE +/- 30.07, N = 3 2258 2281 2064 1. (CXX) g++ options: -pipe -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 140 280 420 560 700 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.30, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 337.16 532.91 638.43 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.67, N = 6 SE +/- 1.54, N = 6 SE +/- 0.75, N = 3 67.44 74.53 73.39 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -pthread -lpthread -lbz2
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 5.36, N = 3 SE +/- 0.58, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 843 850 902 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 11 22 33 44 55 SE +/- 0.09, N = 5 SE +/- 0.09, N = 5 SE +/- 0.08, N = 5 46.14 45.25 49.30
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.03, N = 4 7.90 7.90 7.88 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Development Latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 2.58, N = 3 SE +/- 58.00, N = 3 SE +/- 47.20, N = 3 7360.78 7322.40 7832.70 -lexpat 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lm -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
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