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

Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5649 @ 2.53GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Cisco s N20-B6625-1, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 6 x 16384 MB 1067MHz, Disk: 2 x 147GB Seagate ST9146803SS, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200e [Pilot] (SEP1), Network: Cisco s VIC NIC

	OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-28-server (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 367310  |=============
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 1190103 |==========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 1059239 |=====================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 1294 |=======================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 1105 |====================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2514 |=============================================


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 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 25.34 |============================================


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 |========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 33.71 |=========================


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 |======================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 18539326.97 |==============================


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 |=======================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2415866.50 |===============================


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 |=======================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2415810.80 |===============================


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 |=======================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 1902075.67 |==============================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 54.63 |======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 63.08 |============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 25.22 |==================


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  |===================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 161.11 |===========================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 97.14  |====
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 299.82 |=============
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 973.82 |===========================================


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 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 379.48 |=======================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 15089 |===================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 17360 |======================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 34669 |============================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 28.10 |============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 16.77 |==========================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 16.59 |==========================


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


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 27.00 |======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 25.30 |===================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 31.53 |============================================


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 |==================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 23.52 |============================================


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 |==================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 14.59 |============================================


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 |========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 8846.40  |================================


GnuPG 1.4.10
1GB File Encryption
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 20.20 |============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 19.87 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 20.43 |============================================


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 |============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 119 |========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 93 |=============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 97 |===============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 90 |============================================


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 |=====================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 83 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 117 |==============================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 115 |=============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 109 |===========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.12
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 66 |====================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 65 |====================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 86 |===============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 911.72  |==============================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 1269.30 |==========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 654.71  |======================


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 |====================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 12.15 |==============================


N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 285.51 |==================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 364.30 |===========================================


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 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 62.76  |=========================


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 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 56834 |============================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 486  |======
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 3526 |=============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 3125 |========================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 3512 |===========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 3509 |===========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 3704 |=============================================


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


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 |=========================================


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 |=============================================


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


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 |============================================


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 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 12314.36 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 12771.48 |=========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 1615.16  |=====


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 11906.22 |========================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 12352.27 |=========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 1593.19  |=====


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 12682.45 |=======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 13413.79 |=========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2390.66  |=======


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 ........... 13038.26 |=======================================
Oracle Linux Server 6.1 ... 13676.76 |=========================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2399.43  |=======


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 |============================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 90.46 |============================================


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 |================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 2.88 |====================


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 |======================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 19129.42 |=========================================


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  |===========================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 13818.49 |=========================================


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 |======================================
Ubuntu 10.04.04 Cisco UCS . 13.89 |============================================