EXT3 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS bencharks with a stock/clean install but with the EXT3 file-system on Linux 3.2 kernel as found in Precise pangolin versus ReiserFS and XFS. ReiserFS: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 XFS: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 EXT3: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 19235.34 |========================================================= XFS ...... 19050.50 |======================================================== EXT3 ..... 19661.08 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 85.96 |====================================================== XFS ...... 88.68 |======================================================= EXT3 ..... 97.49 |============================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 103.77 |=========================================================== XFS ...... 104.03 |=========================================================== EXT3 ..... 105.72 |============================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 161.43 |============================================================ XFS ...... 134.29 |================================================== EXT3 ..... 131.66 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 111.23 |========================================= XFS ...... 162.38 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 126.99 |=============================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 230.75 |====================== XFS ...... 636.88 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 224.48 |===================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 297.20 |=================== XFS ...... 916.66 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 237.42 |================ Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better ReiserFS . 147.65 |======================================= XFS ...... 226.00 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 148.16 |======================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 56.80 |=========================================== XFS ...... 80.00 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 64.94 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 122.37 |================================================ XFS ...... 152.80 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 134.77 |===================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 82.63 |====================================================== XFS ...... 93.63 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 88.50 |========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 57.37 |============================================ XFS ...... 80.23 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 64.47 |================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 102.12 |========================================================== XFS ...... 104.74 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 101.13 |========================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 213.35 |===================================================== XFS ...... 240.85 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 225.15 |======================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 102.37 |=========================================================== XFS ...... 104.97 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 99.93 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 213.20 |====================================================== XFS ...... 236.11 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 225.00 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 101.90 |========================================================== XFS ...... 105.61 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 101.20 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 213.13 |====================================================== XFS ...... 235.11 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 224.88 |========================================================= NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 26120.73 |======================================================== XFS ...... 26912.06 |========================================================== EXT3 ..... 26641.64 |========================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 1770 |========================================================== EXT3 ..... 1882 |============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 97.84 |=========================================================== XFS ...... 99.84 |============================================================ EXT3 ..... 100.10 |============================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 98.40 |============================================================= XFS ...... 98.93 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 99.21 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 80.14 |========================================================= XFS ...... 85.83 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 81.36 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better ReiserFS . 84.77 |============================================================ XFS ...... 85.09 |============================================================= EXT3 ..... 85.68 |============================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better ReiserFS . 206.08 |============================================================ XFS ...... 203.75 |=========================================================== EXT3 ..... 206.36 |============================================================