Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on several popular Linux distributions compared to Slackware 14.0 Beta 64-bit (Slackware64) and Arch Linux using the new 2012 July media. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2 8192MB 64GB OCZ VERTEX AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB Realtek ALC892 DELL S2409W Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64) 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 1920x1080 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz Intel Patsburg HD Audio CentOS 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 radeon 6.14.2 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.4.6 20110731 8192MB AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz) Realtek ALC892 Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME Shell 3.4.1 X Server 1.12.0 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7.0 20120507 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB Slackware 14.0 3.2.23 (x86_64) Xfce 4.10 X Server 1.12.3 radeon 6.14.4 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0 Intel Xeon E5/Core 8192MB Linux 3.4.6-1-ARCH (x86_64) radeon 6.14.6 GCC 4.7.1 20120721 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - 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++ --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 - CentOS 6.2: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - Fedora 17: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - Slackware 14 Beta: --build=x86_64-slackware-linux --disable-gtktest --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,go,java,lto,objc --enable-libssp --enable-lto --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-slackware-linux --mandir=/usr/man --target=x86_64-slackware-linux --verbose --with-antlr-jar=/slack/TMPTMPTMP/gcc-round-two/antlr-runtime-3.4.jar --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-gnu-ld --with-java-home=/usr/lib64/jvm/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib64/jvm/jvm-exports --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib64/jvm --with-python-dir=/lib64/python2.7/site-packages - Arch Linux: --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --disable-ppl-version-check --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-cloog-backend=isl --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gold --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-ld=default --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-ppl Disk Details - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr Processor Details - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.2, Fedora 17, Arch Linux: Scaling Governor: ondemand System Details - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. - CentOS 6.2: SELinux: Enabled. - Fedora 17: SELinux: Enabled. Disk Mount Options Details - CentOS 6.2: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel - Fedora 17: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel,user_xattr
Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros scimark2: Composite scimark2: Monte Carlo scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation encode-flac: WAV To FLAC gcrypt: CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver npb: EP.B npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding c-ray: Total Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance byte: Dhrystone 2 sudokut: Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 1264.24 539.23 287.29 1955.26 2362.50 1176.92 5.77 15.62 1617.25 373.16 2705.06 3830.96 49.12 5473.60 106 179 102 30.67 91.85 26208375.50 20.02 1218.56 325.63 326.27 2015.91 2250.35 1174.66 6.16 2297 15.76 1679.33 350.98 2881.10 3839.69 53.39 5959.47 102 169 101 32.48 91.15 28060470.10 30.17 1252.89 412.19 315.57 1946.03 2416.01 1174.66 16.08 1601.01 394.44 2777.18 3527.57 52.31 5737.92 104 178 102 23.46 91.48 25806284.87 20.61 1077.82 345.47 293.03 1724.73 2033.69 992.20 6.84 16.01 1365.25 334.93 2805.12 3511.16 49.12 4850.30 90 156 89 27.92 77.05 22855850.80 23.82 1290.80 411.80 323.83 2089.77 2449.41 1179.18 5.79 15.88 1583.88 401.40 2876.97 3638.09 51.03 5741.54 106 181 104 23.20 91.95 21.46 OpenBenchmarking.org
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 7.87, N = 4 SE +/- 4.31, N = 4 SE +/- 3.56, N = 4 SE +/- 2.35, N = 4 SE +/- 3.96, N = 4 1290.80 1218.56 1252.89 1077.82 1264.24
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 120 240 360 480 600 SE +/- 0.40, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.46, N = 4 SE +/- 7.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 411.80 325.63 412.19 345.47 539.23
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 1.96, N = 4 SE +/- 0.31, N = 4 SE +/- 3.74, N = 4 SE +/- 0.58, N = 4 SE +/- 11.89, N = 4 323.83 326.27 315.57 293.03 287.29
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 30.34, N = 4 SE +/- 21.22, N = 4 SE +/- 11.11, N = 4 SE +/- 7.56, N = 4 SE +/- 8.90, N = 4 2089.77 2015.91 1946.03 1724.73 1955.26
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 9.58, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 2.74, N = 4 SE +/- 1.93, N = 4 SE +/- 2.62, N = 4 2449.41 2250.35 2416.01 2033.69 2362.50
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 1.31, N = 4 SE +/- 1.30, N = 4 1179.18 1174.66 1174.66 992.20 1176.92
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 5.79 6.16 6.84 5.77 -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lm
Gcrypt Library CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher OpenBenchmarking.org Microseconds, Fewer Is Better Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher CentOS 6.2 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 6.67, N = 3 2297
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 15.88 15.76 16.08 16.01 15.62 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 6.06, N = 3 SE +/- 1.32, N = 3 SE +/- 3.05, N = 3 SE +/- 6.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 1583.88 1679.33 1601.01 1365.25 1617.25 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 1.81, N = 3 SE +/- 2.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 401.40 350.98 394.44 334.93 373.16 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 Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 3.17, N = 3 SE +/- 3.84, N = 3 SE +/- 1.15, N = 3 SE +/- 2.82, N = 3 SE +/- 8.69, N = 3 2876.97 2881.10 2777.18 2805.12 2705.06 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 Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 800 1600 2400 3200 4000 SE +/- 5.97, N = 3 SE +/- 4.34, N = 3 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 27.11, N = 3 SE +/- 33.69, N = 3 3638.09 3839.69 3527.57 3511.16 3830.96 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 Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 51.03 53.39 52.31 49.12 49.12 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 11.07, N = 3 SE +/- 14.56, N = 3 SE +/- 8.35, N = 3 SE +/- 8.31, N = 3 SE +/- 9.24, N = 3 5741.54 5959.47 5737.92 4850.30 5473.60 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 106 102 104 90 106 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 181 169 178 156 179 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 104 101 102 89 102 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 23.20 32.48 23.46 27.92 30.67 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 4 91.95 91.15 91.48 77.05 91.85 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
BYTE Unix Benchmark Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 OpenBenchmarking.org LPS, More Is Better BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 6M 12M 18M 24M 30M SE +/- 9283.00, N = 3 SE +/- 16174.60, N = 3 SE +/- 61473.93, N = 3 SE +/- 20097.25, N = 3 28060470.10 25806284.87 22855850.80 26208375.50
Sudokut Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 21.46 30.17 20.61 23.82 20.02
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