Linux WSL Docker Comparison
Tests for a future article.


Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 112GB

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-43-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: WSLFS

Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.59GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 112GB

	OS: openSUSE Leap 42.3, Kernel: 4.4.0-43-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: WSLFS

Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.51GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB Virtual Disk

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, Kernel: 4.9.49-moby (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: overlayfs, System Layer: docker

Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.51GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB Virtual Disk

	OS: openSUSE Leap 42.3, Kernel: 4.9.49-moby (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: overlayfs, System Layer: microsoft

Docker on Windows 10: Clear: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.51GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB Virtual Disk

	OS: Clear Linux OS 19350, Kernel: 4.9.49-moby (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20170910 + Clang 5.0.0 + LLVM 5.0.0, File-System: overlayfs, System Layer: container-other

Bare Metal: Ubuntu: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: AMD POLARIS10 8192MB, Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-40-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.3.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Bare Metal: openSUSE: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: AMD Ellesmere [Polaris10] 8192MB, Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: openSUSE 42.3, Kernel: 4.4.76-1-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 17.0.5 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.8.0), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Bare Metal: Clear: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3200MT/s Corsair CMK16GX4M4C3200C16, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Clear Linux OS 19370, Kernel: 4.14.2-481.native (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 20170910 + Clang 5.0.0 + LLVM 5.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


SQLite 3.8.10.2
Test Target: Default Test Directory
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 136.89 |======================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 131.11 |====================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 55.35  |===============
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 46.66  |=============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 51.92  |==============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 15.26  |====
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 18.89  |=====
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 9.18   |===


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 101.07 |=======
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 188.63 |============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 172.10 |===========
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 425.03 |============================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 609.43 |========================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 368.00  |=============
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 529.76  |===================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 458.45  |================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 952.73  |==================================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 1092.20 |=======================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 107.97 |=======
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 183.83 |============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 174.63 |============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 403.45 |===========================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 593.87 |========================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ... 11411   |
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE . 11851   |
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ....... 513778  |============
Bare Metal: openSUSE ..... 1908505 |===========================================
Bare Metal: Clear ........ 436425  |==========


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ... 270   |=
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE . 317   |=
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ....... 15284 |=============================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ..... 11634 |==================================
Bare Metal: Clear ........ 14465 |===========================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: EP.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu . 1136.99 |========================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ..... 1279.81 |=============================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP LavaMD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 45.80 |=====================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 44.43 |====================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 46.59 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 48.01 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 20.92 |=================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 45.73 |=====================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 43.97 |====================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 19.52 |================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP CFD Solver
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 30.60 |=======================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 19.61 |=========================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 30.03 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 24.60 |===============================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 14.24 |==================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 28.23 |====================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 16.17 |=====================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 12.27 |================


x264 2017-09-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 452.34 |=================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 496.92 |====================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 219.03 |================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 219.41 |================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 202.59 |===============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 366.96 |===========================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 349.55 |=========================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 520.92 |======================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 156 |============================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 151 |===========================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 159 |=============================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 151 |===========================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 165 |==============================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 185 |==================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 226 |=========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 182 |=============================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 206 |=================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 183 |==============================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 197 |================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 187 |==============================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 200 |================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 254 |=========================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 1157.49 |=============
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 2329.04 |===========================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 2826.94 |=================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 2734.61 |================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 2969.93 |==================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 2844.38 |=================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 2884.07 |=================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 3207.20 |=====================================


ebizzy 0.3

Records/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 645987 |======================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 653997 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 600768 |===================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 605725 |===================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 94511  |=====
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 626773 |====================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 577191 |==================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 635280 |=====================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 60.68 |=======================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 48.57 |===============================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 23.70 |===============
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 21.57 |==============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 27.84 |==================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 19.18 |============
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 16.95 |===========
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 20.16 |=============


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 120.22 |========================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 116.10 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 36.82  |============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 37.28  |============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 33.21  |===========
Bare Metal: openSUSE ......... 31.74  |===========
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 32.50  |===========


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 4.91  |================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 4.98  |=================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 11.73 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 5.20  |=================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 4.84  |================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 11.33 |======================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 4.93  |================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 4.48  |===============


Primesieve 6.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 16.75 |=======================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 16.32 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 15.91 |=====================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 16.27 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 16.00 |=====================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 15.17 |===================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 15.16 |===================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 15.14 |===================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 5.71 |=====================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 5.76 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 5.68 |=====================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 6.13 |========================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 5.63 |=====================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 5.76 |======================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 5.78 |======================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 5.28 |==================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 12.29 |=====================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 12.47 |======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 12.38 |=====================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 12.94 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 10.49 |================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 12.70 |======================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 12.42 |=====================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 9.44  |============================


FFmpeg 3.3.3
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 13.12 |===================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 13.38 |====================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 13.87 |=====================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 14.46 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 13.97 |======================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 10.36 |============================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 10.72 |=============================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 5.72  |===============


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only
TPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 185416.97 |============
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 196593.80 |=============
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 344274.55 |=======================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 340949.69 |======================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 510905.67 |=================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ......... 53184.73  |===
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 565269.28 |=====================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 2569.70  |=====
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 2585.92  |=====
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 6416.52  |============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 6274.28  |============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 13975.46 |==========================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ......... 6877.89  |=============
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 20110.61 |======================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only
TPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 184512.66 |============
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 196065.58 |=============
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 337783.40 |=======================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 336351.61 |=======================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 524159.28 |===================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ......... 52595.39  |====
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 549625.09 |=====================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.0
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 2485.87  |=====
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 2538.79  |=====
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 6959.01  |=============
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 6564.68  |============
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 12904.89 |========================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ......... 7837.09  |==============
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 20557.21 |======================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 560.51 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 582.06 |========================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 580.24 |========================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 565.87 |=======================================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 540.98 |=====================================


Java JMH
Throughput
Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 61003068631.82 |===============================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 59596278643.17 |==============================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 63589082781.55 |================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ......... 1203 |=================================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ....... 1234 |==================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu ... 1203 |=================================
Docker on Windows 10: openSUSE . 1272 |===================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .... 1444 |========================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ............. 1172 |================================
Bare Metal: openSUSE ........... 1265 |===================================
Bare Metal: Clear .............. 989  |===========================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 542326 |=============================
Windows 10 WSL: openSUSE ..... 561492 |==============================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 522851 |============================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 644794 |==================================
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 525506 |============================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 751518 |========================================


Scikit-Learn 0.17.1

Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu ....... 155.38 |=======================================
Docker on Windows 10: Ubuntu . 161.43 |========================================
Docker on Windows 10: Clear .. 11.44  |===
Bare Metal: Ubuntu ........... 160.55 |========================================
Bare Metal: Clear ............ 11.59  |===