Dbench

Dbench is a benchmark designed by the Samba project as a free alternative to netbench, but dbench contains only file-system calls for testing the disk performance.


Dbench 4.0

1 Clients

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 4,044 public results since 26 February 2011 with the latest data as of 22 December 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Details
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
MB/s (Average)
100th
4
1171 +/- 34
95th
3
574 +/- 10
93rd
5
508 +/- 57
92nd
4
489 +/- 17
89th
5
422 +/- 16
87th
7
385 +/- 14
83rd
5
338 +/- 14
82nd
3
319 +/- 28
82nd
3
318 +/- 11
79th
3
296 +/- 20
78th
4
284 +/- 1
Mid-Tier
75th
< 255
75th
3
254 +/- 6
75th
3
250 +/- 6
73rd
6
239 +/- 9
73rd
3
234 +/- 19
71st
31
219 +/- 24
70th
5
210 +/- 2
69th
7
205 +/- 21
64th
5
170 +/- 4
63rd
3
167 +/- 23
63rd
10
162 +/- 9
61st
6
149 +/- 4
57th
6
128 +/- 6
53rd
3
104 +/- 4
Median
50th
93
49th
4
88 +/- 6
44th
4
72 +/- 5
41st
63
64 +/- 5
41st
4
64 +/- 1
38th
4
59 +/- 1
37th
7
56 +/- 8
36th
4
54 +/- 1
35th
3
50 +/- 4
34th
3
48 +/- 2
30th
3
35 +/- 4
29th
4
34 +/- 1
28th
11
33 +/- 1
27th
3
29 +/- 2
Low-Tier
25th
< 25
22nd
4
19 +/- 2
21st
3
17 +/- 1
19th
4
15 +/- 1
18th
12
14 +/- 2