Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros Looking at the Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge" Extreme Edition performance on several popular Linux distributions compared to Slackware 14.0 Beta 64-bit (Slackware64) and Arch Linux using the new 2012 July media. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2 8192MB 64GB OCZ VERTEX AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz) Realtek ALC892 DELL S2409W Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME Shell 3.4.1 X Server 1.12.0 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7.0 20120507 ext4 1920x1080 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB Intel Patsburg HD Audio CentOS 6.2 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (x86_64) GNOME 2.28.2 X Server 1.10.4 radeon 6.14.2 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.4.6 20110731 8192MB Realtek ALC892 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.10.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz Slackware 14.0 3.2.23 (x86_64) Xfce 4.10 X Server 1.12.3 radeon 6.14.4 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0 Intel Xeon E5/Core 8192MB Linux 3.4.6-1-ARCH (x86_64) radeon 6.14.6 GCC 4.7.1 20120721 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Fedora 17: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - CentOS 6.2: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-dssi --disable-libjava-multilib --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-maintainer-mode --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=i686 --with-cloog --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --with-ppl --with-tune=generic - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v - Slackware 14 Beta: --build=x86_64-slackware-linux --disable-gtktest --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking=release --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,go,java,lto,objc --enable-libssp --enable-lto --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-slackware-linux --mandir=/usr/man --target=x86_64-slackware-linux --verbose --with-antlr-jar=/slack/TMPTMPTMP/gcc-round-two/antlr-runtime-3.4.jar --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-gnu-ld --with-java-home=/usr/lib64/jvm/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib64/jvm/jvm-exports --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib64/jvm --with-python-dir=/lib64/python2.7/site-packages - Arch Linux: --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --disable-build-with-cxx --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-multilib --disable-ppl-version-check --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-cloog-backend=isl --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gold --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-ld=default --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-ppl Processor Details - Fedora 17, CentOS 6.2, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Arch Linux: Scaling Governor: ondemand System Details - Fedora 17: SELinux: Enabled. - CentOS 6.2: SELinux: Enabled. - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. Disk Mount Options Details - Fedora 17: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel,user_xattr - CentOS 6.2: barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,seclabel Disk Details - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Arch Linux vs. Slackware 14 Beta vs. Other Linux Distros scimark2: Monte Carlo sudokut: Total Time c-ray: Total Time himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver ffte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine byte: Dhrystone 2 scimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiply scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization npb: EP.B scimark2: Composite openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance scimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation encode-flac: WAV To FLAC graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Resizing npb: SP.A npb: UA.A npb: MG.B hmmer: Pfam Database Search gcrypt: CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 412.19 20.61 23.46 1601.01 5737.92 25806284.87 1946.03 2416.01 394.44 1252.89 91.48 1174.66 104 102 178 3527.57 52.31 2777.18 16.08 315.57 325.63 30.17 32.48 1679.33 5959.47 28060470.10 2015.91 2250.35 350.98 1218.56 91.15 1174.66 6.16 102 101 169 3839.69 53.39 2881.10 15.76 2297 326.27 539.23 20.02 30.67 1617.25 5473.60 26208375.50 1955.26 2362.50 373.16 1264.24 91.85 1176.92 5.77 106 102 179 3830.96 49.12 2705.06 15.62 287.29 345.47 23.82 27.92 1365.25 4850.30 22855850.80 1724.73 2033.69 334.93 1077.82 77.05 992.20 6.84 90 89 156 3511.16 49.12 2805.12 16.01 293.03 411.80 21.46 23.20 1583.88 5741.54 2089.77 2449.41 401.40 1290.80 91.95 1179.18 5.79 106 104 181 3638.09 51.03 2876.97 15.88 323.83 OpenBenchmarking.org
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 120 240 360 480 600 SE +/- 0.46, N = 4 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 SE +/- 7.39, N = 4 SE +/- 0.40, N = 4 412.19 325.63 539.23 345.47 411.80
Sudokut Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 20.61 30.17 20.02 23.82 21.46
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 23.46 32.48 30.67 27.92 23.20 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 3.05, N = 3 SE +/- 1.32, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 6.29, N = 3 SE +/- 6.06, N = 3 1601.01 1679.33 1617.25 1365.25 1583.88 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
FFTE Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 8.35, N = 3 SE +/- 14.56, N = 3 SE +/- 9.24, N = 3 SE +/- 8.31, N = 3 SE +/- 11.07, N = 3 5737.92 5959.47 5473.60 4850.30 5741.54 -m64 -O2 -fPIC -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp
BYTE Unix Benchmark Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 OpenBenchmarking.org LPS, More Is Better BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta 6M 12M 18M 24M 30M SE +/- 16174.60, N = 3 SE +/- 9283.00, N = 3 SE +/- 20097.25, N = 3 SE +/- 61473.93, N = 3 25806284.87 28060470.10 26208375.50 22855850.80
SciMark Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 11.11, N = 4 SE +/- 21.22, N = 4 SE +/- 8.90, N = 4 SE +/- 7.56, N = 4 SE +/- 30.34, N = 4 1946.03 2015.91 1955.26 1724.73 2089.77
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 2.74, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 2.62, N = 4 SE +/- 1.93, N = 4 SE +/- 9.58, N = 4 2416.01 2250.35 2362.50 2033.69 2449.41
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 1.81, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 2.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 394.44 350.98 373.16 334.93 401.40 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
SciMark Computational Test: Composite OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 3.56, N = 4 SE +/- 4.31, N = 4 SE +/- 3.96, N = 4 SE +/- 2.35, N = 4 SE +/- 7.87, N = 4 1252.89 1218.56 1264.24 1077.82 1290.80
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.28, N = 4 SE +/- 0.22, N = 4 SE +/- 0.18, N = 4 SE +/- 0.23, N = 4 91.48 91.15 91.85 77.05 91.95 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
SciMark Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 SE +/- 1.30, N = 4 SE +/- 1.31, N = 4 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 1174.66 1174.66 1176.92 992.20 1179.18
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 6.16 5.77 6.84 5.79 -logg 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lm
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 104 102 106 90 106 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 102 101 102 89 104 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 178 169 179 156 181 -lgomp -lc -lbz2 -ldl -lrt -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lgomp 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O2 -pthread -lz -lm -lpthread
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 800 1600 2400 3200 4000 SE +/- 3.79, N = 3 SE +/- 4.34, N = 3 SE +/- 33.69, N = 3 SE +/- 27.11, N = 3 SE +/- 5.97, N = 3 3527.57 3839.69 3830.96 3511.16 3638.09 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 52.31 53.39 49.12 49.12 51.03 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 1.15, N = 3 SE +/- 3.84, N = 3 SE +/- 8.69, N = 3 SE +/- 2.82, N = 3 SE +/- 3.17, N = 3 2777.18 2881.10 2705.06 2805.12 2876.97 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 16.08 15.76 15.62 16.01 15.88 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Gcrypt Library CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher OpenBenchmarking.org Microseconds, Fewer Is Better Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher CentOS 6.2 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 6.67, N = 3 2297
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Fedora 17 CentOS 6.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Slackware 14 Beta Arch Linux 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 3.74, N = 4 SE +/- 0.31, N = 4 SE +/- 11.89, N = 4 SE +/- 0.58, N = 4 SE +/- 1.96, N = 4 315.57 326.27 287.29 293.03 323.83
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