Debian kFreeBSD vs. Debian Linux - Squeeze/Wheezy Benchmarking Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD with the Squeeze 6.0 and Wheezy testing releases to look for performance differences. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB 1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ-VERTEX/1.30, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Intel (Unknown) HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.0.5 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6, Kernel: 8.1-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.4.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ VERTEX 1.30, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3 OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid, Kernel: 9.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 27.15 |==================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 24.04 |================================ Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 29.31 |======================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 13078.73 |=================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 11922.83 |=============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 12786.77 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 13263.07 |=================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 26938633.80 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 22621315.77 |=========================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 25874598.70 |=============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 26097477.40 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 2.82 |===================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 4.17 |================================ Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 2.83 |===================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 5.15 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 180.02 |===================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 23.76 |===== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 51.17 |=========== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 20.77 |==== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 169.77 |===================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 9.57 |== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 70.29 |=============== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 8.30 |== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 6190.45 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 6695.54 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 6486.81 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 6857.50 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 5805.42 |=============================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 6664.60 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 6060.19 |================================ Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 6850.21 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 6429.87 |=============================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 7291.36 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 6923.27 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 7395.15 |==================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 6120.19 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 6850.14 |==================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 6546.25 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 6881.18 |==================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 5886.54 |==================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 4987.15 |============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 5755.34 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 5606.65 |================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 1538.44 |================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 1282.81 |============================ Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 1630.60 |==================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 1612.15 |==================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 25930 |====================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 20956 |=============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 25311 |===================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 22939 |================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 30342333 |================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 23297667 |========================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 31653000 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 17923667 |==================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 1053 |======================================= Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 99 |==== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 103 |==== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 39.23 |================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 45.43 |======================================= PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 2454 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 2991 |======================================= Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 1893 |========================= Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 2408 |=============================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 9.53 |========== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 33.39 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 8.56 |========= Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 37.05 |====================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 27.69 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 32.89 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 24.10 |============================ Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 23.87 |============================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 6.09 |========== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 22.82 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 5.91 |========== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 18.31 |============================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 27.64 |============================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 37.65 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 3.08 |=== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 17.86 |========================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 23.15 |================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 21.86 |================================ Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 26.05 |====================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 32.44 |========================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 48.04 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 23.16 |================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 24.54 |=================== Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 55.93 |================================= Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 66.63 |======================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 11.66 |================================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 14.01 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 11.41 |=============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 11.94 |================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 129.46 |===================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 122.36 |=================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 128.83 |===================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 111.56 |================================ dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 57.89 |============================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 74.15 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 57.19 |============================= Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 61.70 |================================ Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 5.77 |================ Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 13.44 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 5.64 |================ Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 9.63 |=========================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 8.69 |=============================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 10.80 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 8.49 |============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 8.69 |=============================== N-Queens 1.0 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux ..... 223.20 |=============================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD .. 264.77 |===================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux .... 211.47 |============================== Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD . 214.46 |============================== FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 19.26 |======================================= Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 14.55 |============================= Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 18.75 |====================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 127.02 |================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 141.79 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 129.51 |=================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 71.85 |=================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 80.56 |======================================= Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 73.45 |==================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 121.80 |================================== Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 135.97 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 118.78 |================================= Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux .... 154.58 |================================= Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD . 180.05 |====================================== Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux ... 154.04 |=================================