FreeBSD 9.0 vs. Oracle Linux Server 6.1
FreeBSD 9.0 versus Oracle Linux Server 6.1 benchmarking with Intel Core i7 870 CPU that's quad-core with Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz. Open-source performance of Oracle Linux Server 6.1, which is based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Using 64-bit builds of each operating system with stock settings aside from FreeBSD ZFS file-system.


FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: 

	Processor: Intel Core 870 @ 2.93GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: 090309 RSDT1600, Memory: 8145MB, Disk: ATAPI iHAS124 Y BL0W + Western Digital WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz), Audio: NVIDIA (Unknown) HD Audio

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.0-RC2 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.7.3, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: NVIDIA 285.05.09, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 3.0 (SVN 142614), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Oracle Linux Server 6.1: 

	Processor: Intel Core 870 @ 2.93GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS P55H-A v1.0, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AADS-0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: OracleServer 6.1, Kernel: 2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.10, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

fastraid: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 850 + 3 x 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 500GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 4001GB Seagate ST4000DX001-1CE1 + 12002GB MARVELL Raid VD + 2000GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1215/3505MHz), Audio: Intel C600/X79, Network: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.44, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160621, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 367310  |======
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 1190103 |=====================
fastraid ................ 2524292 |============================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 1294  |=====
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 1105  |====
fastraid ................ 11533 |==============================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 6.39  |============
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 24.94 |==============================================
fastraid ................ 20.09 |=====================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 59.53 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 53.76 |==========================================


BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6
Computational Test: Dhrystone 2
LPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 21423998.83 |================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 23371448.03 |==================================
fastraid ................ 27165114.13 |========================================


BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6
Computational Test: Register Arithmetic
LPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 3047752.37 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 3087974.17 |=========================================
fastraid ................ 1.00       |


BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6
Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic
LPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 3047897.53 |=========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 3082618.33 |=========================================
fastraid ................ 1.00       |


BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6
Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic
LPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 2396750.10 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 2439117.20 |=========================================
fastraid ................ 1.00       |


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 54.63 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 63.08 |==============================================
fastraid ................ 18.93 |==============


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 86.08  |=============
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 72.69  |===========
fastraid ................ 305.68 |=============================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 97.14   |===
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 299.82  |========
fastraid ................ 1571.17 |============================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 123.09  |===
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 422.06  |==========
fastraid ................ 1947.77 |============================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 15089 |==========================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 17360 |==============================
fastraid ................ 26909 |==============================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 28.10 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 16.77 |===========================
fastraid ................ 13.06 |=====================


LZMA Compression
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 124.69 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 141.24 |=============================================
fastraid ................ 138.40 |============================================


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 27.00 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 25.30 |===========================================
fastraid ................ 17.26 |=============================


Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6
WAV To APE
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 18.05 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 17.86 |==============================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 18.71 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 18.26 |=============================================
fastraid ................ 11.95 |=============================


Ogg Encoding 1.2.0
WAV To Ogg
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 12.79 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 11.40 |=========================================
fastraid ................ 8.65  |===============================


Fhourstones 3.1
Complex Connect-4 Solving
Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 11303.70 |===========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 11024.43 |==========================================
fastraid ................ 11239.93 |===========================================


GnuPG 1.4.10
1GB File Encryption
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 20.20 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 19.87 |=============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 137 |================================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 131 |==============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 93 |===============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 97 |=================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 66 |=================================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 66 |=================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 117 |================================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 115 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 66 |=================================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 65 |================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 911.72  |=========================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 1269.30 |===================================
fastraid ................ 1598.10 |============================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 18.07 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 14.84 |======================================
fastraid ................ 12.69 |================================


N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 . 285.51 |=====================================================
fastraid ........ 226.33 |==========================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: IS.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 98.63  |========================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 106.59 |==========================
fastraid ................ 182.12 |=============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 51.03 |=============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 52.03 |==============================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 . 55794  |==========================
fastraid ........ 115227 |=====================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 486  |====
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 3526 |=============================
fastraid ................ 5625 |===============================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 3512 |===============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 3509 |===============================================
fastraid ................ 2154 |=============================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 884.79  |================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 844.03  |===============================
fastraid ................ 1201.00 |============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 236.17 |==================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 213.65 |===============================
fastraid ................ 311.32 |=============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 970.76  |======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 974.84  |======================================
fastraid ................ 1135.44 |============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 443.00 |======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 246.27 |=====================
fastraid ................ 522.82 |=============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 1213.64 |=============================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 1228.22 |=============================
fastraid ................ 1851.85 |============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 1560.39 |===============================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 1557.18 |===============================
fastraid ................ 2183.55 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 12314.36 |=====================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 12771.48 |======================
fastraid ................ 25293.63 |===========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 11906.22 |=====================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 12352.27 |======================
fastraid ................ 24085.39 |===========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 12682.45 |=====================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 13413.79 |=======================
fastraid ................ 25554.00 |===========================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 13038.26 |=====================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 13676.76 |======================
fastraid ................ 26532.54 |===========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 74.99 |======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 90.23 |==============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 6.48 |===============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 4.65 |==================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 119.49   |=
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 10255.75 |===========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 919.76  |====
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 9100.38 |============================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ......... 13.53 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 . 11.88 |========================================
fastraid ................ 9.14  |===============================