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 npb: EP.B npb: MG.B npb: SP.A npb: UA.A ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine hmmer: Pfam Database Search byte: Dhrystone 2 scimark2: Composite scimark2: Monte Carlo scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation gcrypt: CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver c-ray: Total Time encode-flac: WAV To FLAC sudokut: Total Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 373.16 2705.06 3830.96 49.12 5473.60 15.62 26208375.50 1264.24 539.23 287.29 1955.26 2362.50 1176.92 106 179 102 1617.25 30.67 5.77 20.02 91.85 350.98 2881.10 3839.69 53.39 5959.47 15.76 28060470.10 1218.56 325.63 326.27 2015.91 2250.35 1174.66 2297 102 169 101 1679.33 32.48 6.16 30.17 91.15 394.44 2777.18 3527.57 52.31 5737.92 16.08 25806284.87 1252.89 412.19 315.57 1946.03 2416.01 1174.66 104 178 102 1601.01 23.46 20.61 91.48 334.93 2805.12 3511.16 49.12 4850.30 16.01 22855850.80 1077.82 345.47 293.03 1724.73 2033.69 992.20 90 156 89 1365.25 27.92 6.84 23.82 77.05 401.40 2876.97 3638.09 51.03 5741.54 15.88 1290.80 411.80 323.83 2089.77 2449.41 1179.18 106 181 104 1583.88 23.20 5.79 21.46 91.95 OpenBenchmarking.org
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 Fedora 17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 1.81, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 2.01, N = 3 401.40 394.44 373.16 350.98 334.93 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 CentOS 6.2 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta Fedora 17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 3.84, N = 3 SE +/- 3.17, N = 3 SE +/- 2.82, N = 3 SE +/- 1.15, N = 3 SE +/- 8.69, N = 3 2881.10 2876.97 2805.12 2777.18 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 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Arch Linux Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta 800 1600 2400 3200 4000 SE +/- 4.34, N = 3 SE +/- 33.69, N = 3 SE +/- 5.97, N = 3 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 27.11, N = 3 3839.69 3830.96 3638.09 3527.57 3511.16 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 CentOS 6.2 Fedora 17 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 53.39 52.31 51.03 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 CentOS 6.2 Arch Linux Fedora 17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 14.56, N = 3 SE +/- 11.07, N = 3 SE +/- 8.35, N = 3 SE +/- 9.24, N = 3 SE +/- 8.31, N = 3 5959.47 5741.54 5737.92 5473.60 4850.30 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta Fedora 17 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 15.62 15.76 15.88 16.01 16.08 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
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 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta 6M 12M 18M 24M 30M SE +/- 9283.00, N = 3 SE +/- 20097.25, N = 3 SE +/- 16174.60, N = 3 SE +/- 61473.93, N = 3 28060470.10 26208375.50 25806284.87 22855850.80
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Arch Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 7.87, N = 4 SE +/- 3.96, N = 4 SE +/- 3.56, N = 4 SE +/- 4.31, N = 4 SE +/- 2.35, N = 4 1290.80 1264.24 1252.89 1218.56 1077.82
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta CentOS 6.2 120 240 360 480 600 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 SE +/- 0.46, N = 4 SE +/- 0.40, N = 4 SE +/- 7.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 539.23 412.19 411.80 345.47 325.63
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform CentOS 6.2 Arch Linux Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.31, N = 4 SE +/- 1.96, N = 4 SE +/- 3.74, N = 4 SE +/- 0.58, N = 4 SE +/- 11.89, N = 4 326.27 323.83 315.57 293.03 287.29
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 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 30.34, N = 4 SE +/- 21.22, N = 4 SE +/- 8.90, N = 4 SE +/- 11.11, N = 4 SE +/- 7.56, N = 4 2089.77 2015.91 1955.26 1946.03 1724.73
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Arch Linux Fedora 17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 9.58, N = 4 SE +/- 2.74, N = 4 SE +/- 2.62, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 1.93, N = 4 2449.41 2416.01 2362.50 2250.35 2033.69
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Arch Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 1.30, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 1.31, N = 4 1179.18 1176.92 1174.66 1174.66 992.20
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
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Arch Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 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 = 3 106 106 104 102 90 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt 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 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 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 = 3 181 179 178 169 156 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt 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 Fedora 17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 104 102 102 101 89 -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 1.32, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 3.05, N = 3 SE +/- 6.06, N = 3 SE +/- 6.29, N = 3 1679.33 1617.25 1601.01 1583.88 1365.25 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Arch Linux Fedora 17 Slackware 14 Beta Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CentOS 6.2 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 23.20 23.46 27.92 30.67 32.48 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Arch Linux CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 5.77 5.79 6.16 6.84 -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lm
Sudokut Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 Arch Linux Slackware 14 Beta CentOS 6.2 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 20.02 20.61 21.46 23.82 30.17
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Arch Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Slackware 14 Beta 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 91.95 91.85 91.48 91.15 77.05 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
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