Debian kFreeBSD vs. Debian Linux - Squeeze/Wheezy

Benchmarking Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD with the Squeeze 6.0 and Wheezy testing releases to look for performance differences. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux
December 11 2012
 
Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD
December 10 2012
 
Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux
December 11 2012
 
Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD
December 12 2012
 
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Debian kFreeBSD vs. Debian Linux - Squeeze/Wheezy, "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Quasigroup", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",179.252462,180.469288,180.426108 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",154.873033,154.573097,154.303276 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",153.480191,153.297563,155.346646 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Solitaire", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",134.60872,136.633751,136.675951 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",122.043253,121.623111,121.731254 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",117.717052,121.329969,117.292723 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Graceful", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",80.563072,80.53885,80.575551 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",71.913173,71.631388,72.007982 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",73.248142,73.824678,73.28646 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Bibd", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",140.613407,142.36572,142.39248 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",127.081408,126.959307,127.031151 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",128.639756,131.204231,128.690237 "FFmpeg 1.0 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",14.509397029877,14.488807916641,14.63983297348 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",20.349130153656,18.798117160797,18.999196052551,19.163898944855,18.997900009155 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",19.243963956833,18.562880992889,18.45513510704 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",23.76,24.24,24.13 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",26.25,27.73,27.48 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",29.04,29.4,29.5 "PyBench 2008-08-14 - Total For Average Test Times", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",2991,2992,2991 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",2451,2452,2458 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",1886,1898,1896 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",2409,2408,2407 "N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",264.888,264.651 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",223.205,223.19 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",211.49,211.444 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",214.403,214.509 "GnuPG 1.4.10 - 1GB File Encryption", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",10.862494945526,10.777892827988,10.773057937622,10.770506858826 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",8.8557810783386,8.6416058540344,8.6321339607239,8.6155958175659 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",9.0593209266663,8.3692018985748,8.3983500003815,8.377149105072,8.3638541698456,8.3624849319458 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",8.8952379226685,8.6300871372223,8.6172449588776,8.6235461235046 "Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 - WAV To APE", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",13.924772024155,13.313748836517,13.31427192688,13.314049005508,13.312167882919 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",6.7113211154938,5.6552670001984,5.6656119823456,5.6623718738556,5.6946678161621,5.6656868457794,5.6679158210754,5.6614818572998,5.6622018814087,5.6662001609802 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",6.0983788967133,5.6338889598846,5.5589609146118,5.5547108650208,5.5621628761292,5.5581049919128,5.5582981109619,5.5665020942688 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",9.7935950756073,9.5941469669342,9.5944619178772,9.5953478813171,9.5945258140564 "dcraw - RAW To PPM Image Conversion", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",76.191478967667,73.240481853485,73.024271965027 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",58.20836186409,57.763059854507,57.713285923004 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",57.724936008453,56.921757936478,56.937793016434 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",65.122518062592,61.092164993286,60.424911022186,60.875543117523,60.972262144089 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",122.42358088493,122.33948993683,122.31756401062 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",129.54320693016,129.30852794647,129.53801512718 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",128.8240480423,129.32476902008,128.34904003143 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",111.64315414429,111.53564119339,111.51300501823 "Gzip Compression - 2GB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",14.014609098434,14.011383056641,14.011870861053 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",11.663942098618,11.662785053253,11.666270017624 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",11.408237934113,11.404784917831,11.407328128815 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",11.946810007095,11.928575992584,11.947602987289 "Primesieve 4.0 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",66.2791,67.1888,66.411 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",55.8667,56.0649,55.8615 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",49.026,46.768,48.324 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",32.476,32.42,32.419 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",23.119,23.129,23.24 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",25.787,23.969,25.723,24.137,23.844,23.801 "Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",23.570248842239,22.773760795593,23.101160049438 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",17.81091094017,17.998927116394,17.776126861572 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",21.860893011093,21.805739879608,21.920996904373 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",26.88481593132,25.199393033981,25.405481815338,29.068938970566,24.910219907761,24.848275184631 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",38.140309095383,37.387949228287,37.410588979721 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",27.58181810379,27.568728208542,27.755554914474 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",3.0061979293823,3.0674290657043,3.1801819801331 "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",20630,22150,20720,22258,20501,19477 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",25889,25982,25918 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",25254,25294,25385 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",23886,22248,22851,22770 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",1282.601222,1283.469189,1282.373281 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",1538.481734,1539.670979,1537.164919 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",1630.659842,1631.079518,1630.058605 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",1612.744175,1612.157602,1611.557127 "John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",22757000,23298000,23838000 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",30326000,30375000,30326000 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",31653000,31653000,31653000 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",17891000,17842000,18038000 "BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 - Computational Test: Dhrystone 2", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",22617108,22624131.9,22622707.4 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",26905460.8,26879459.6,27030981 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",25865559.2,25880255.5,25877981.4 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",26101315.9,26090150,26100966.3 "Fhourstones 3.1 - Complex Connect-4 Solving", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",11923.8,11922.7,11922 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",13061.3,13073.8,13101.1 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",12809.2,12770.7,12780.4 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",13266.4,13266.4,13256.4 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",22.871094942093,22.800766944885,22.789337873459 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",5.8912918567657,6.4373891353607,5.8271489143372,5.7597250938416,6.1952469348907,6.4511439800262 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",5.8644139766693,6.0523910522461,6.3299851417542,5.8398380279541,5.8078038692474,5.5949289798737 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",18.385723114014,18.27899813652,18.275393009186 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",4990.8323169853,4985.3522588155,4985.2505227853 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",5892.6892909779,5875.355214596,5891.5752576138 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",5732.5914788894,5767.1237392015,5766.3083804475 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",5606.1176596469,5606.8027071562,5607.0415496419 "LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 - Test: Rhodopsin Protein", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",45.4844,45.3359,45.4844 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",39.1836,39.2734,39.2344 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",33.011615991592,32.834453821182,32.834847927094 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",27.836373090744,27.59535908699,27.635896921158 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",24.166990041733,24.10224199295,24.043190002441 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",23.984158992767,23.81611084938,23.820587158203 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Add", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",6772.972,6886.7275,6843.6533,6721.8654,6796.9815,7035.9472,6894.5102,6897.3446,6867.9331,6783.4695 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",6138.7545,6103.7652,6127.9172,6133.5179,6101.5454,6128.6634,6138.193,6140.6269,6081.272,6107.6538 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",6562.7862,6519.2213,6524.5031,6604.3364,6555.734,6560.22,6539.3378,6530.6407,6525.349,6540.4 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",6739.6422,6940.3817,6868.8704,6995.1215,6980.8111,6805.7127,6946.608,6770.9219,6843.4206,6920.3421 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Triad", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",7127.8666,7403.8906,7258.4127,7143.8007,7197.4329,7394.6445,7374.6004,7368.6623,7351.7105,7292.5922 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",6429.8998,6420.4673,6479.5659,6432.776,6396.6001,6400.057,6446.5768,6460.2295,6407.5936,6424.975 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",6934.6443,6932.2565,6927.4858,6917.2511,6892.6219,6905.3882,6935.5998,6898.5263,6948.526,6940.3817 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",7230.0004,7582.9225,7346.3453,7438.3578,7590.3556,7511.906,7256.3198,7249.5262,7337.2423,7408.5222 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Scale", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",6462.0957,6743.9317,6589.9606,6534.4561,6597.7352,6923.4359,6758.1938,6754.1127,6622.4763,6659.6074 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",5780.5129,5818.0991,5789.7389,5830.7367,5785.4963,5801.2503,5790.7381,5837.33,5811.8008,5808.5311 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",6048.0231,6085.8678,6041.2174,6048.0231,6033.0709,6063.8713,6089.4573,6038.7712,6066.338,6087.2479 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",6684.8156,6836.3331,6915.9441,6899.5902,7013.1533,6847.8433,6886.1386,6825.9029,6802.7232,6789.6463 "Stream 2009-04-11 - Type: Copy", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",6489.5913,6821.7397,6845.0494,6443.7913,6519.8547,6663.9059,6973.074,6838.7714,6745.2874,6614.3174 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",6165.8273,6205.1654,6206.3131,6213.7837,6162.1472,6199.1468,6199.1468,6177.7468,6202.5846,6172.6328 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",6464.5857,6473.6279,6464.5857,6489.5913,6488.0228,6500.2774,6505.3183,6502.7969,6475.1895,6504.0574 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",6729.7296,6999.2557,6793.7704,6840.5141,6827.2917,6672.1877,6868.1674,6801.3443,7230.0004,6812.7368 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",86,92,95,96,100,103,105,105,105,107 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",1388,1315,1315,1250,961,641,892,757,1250,757 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",87,94,98,101,104,104,105,108,112,113 "Unpacking The Linux Kernel - linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2", Lower Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",37.166153907776,34.163497209549,33.226202964783,31.719297885895,33.634462833405,33.614109039307,31.31485915184,32.304182052612 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",12.746382951736,10.234251022339,9.0664389133453,8.8933229446411,8.8956029415131,9.1543099880219,8.6095249652863,8.6530368328094 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",9.4604060649872,8.3851280212402,8.6079797744751,8.3773460388184,8.5625350475311,8.3551950454712,8.3791937828064,8.3631298542023 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",42.490867137909,39.598418951035,38.922714948654,36.206582069397,36.128149032593,33.518185853958,34.732074022293,34.79477596283 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",9.04,9.47,9.81,9.8,9.75 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",137.83,161.47,189.73,161.44,181.17,186.98 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",47.71,73.04,73.66,74.62,75.8,76.92 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",8.5,8.01,8.4 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",19.57,23.21,23.87,24.76,25.37,25.75 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",165.72,186.12,178.46,181.12,186.14,182.53 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",39.58,52.29,52,58.33,52.74,52.07 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",18.37,17.23,20.88,22.18,22.75,23.2 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8", Higher Results Are Better "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD",4.161,3.989,4.291,4.227 "Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux",2.875,2.792,2.843,2.755 "Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux",3.005,2.741,3.035,2.649,2.882,2.824,2.649,2.877 "Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD",5.669,4.871,5.002,4.981,5.29,5.402,5.204,4.798