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.
Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB 1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.6.6.
Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ-VERTEX/1.30, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Intel (Unknown) HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.0.5
OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6, Kernel: 8.1-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --target=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
System Notes: Python 2.6.6.
Disk Mount Options Notes: rw
Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.4.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,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=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2.
Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ VERTEX 1.30, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3
OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid, Kernel: 9.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --disable-libitm --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --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-kfreebsd-gnu --target=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
System Notes: Python 2.7.3rc2.
Disk Mount Options Notes: rw
Timed MAFFT Alignment
Monkey Audio Encoding
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
Threaded I/O Tester
John The Ripper
PyBench
Dolfyn
Dolfyn is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code of modern numerical simulation techniques. The Dolfyn test profile measures the execution time of the bundled computational fluid dynamics demos that are bundled with Dolfyn. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFmpeg
dcraw
This test times how long it takes to convert several high-resolution RAW NEF image files to PPM image format using dcraw. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GnuPG
Himeno Benchmark
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
N-Queens
7-Zip Compression
Gzip Compression
VP8 libvpx Encoding
Primesieve
BYTE Unix Benchmark
FFTE
FFTE is a package by Daisuke Takahashi to compute Discrete Fourier Transforms of 1-, 2- and 3- dimensional sequences of length (2^p)*(3^q)*(5^r). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stream
Minion
LZMA Compression
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator
Stream
Minion
Stream
Minion
Fhourstones
Stream
Timed PHP Compilation
PostMark
Unpacking The Linux Kernel
Compile Bench
Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian Linux
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DMI2, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB 1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Debian 6.0.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.6.6.
Testing initiated at 11 December 2012 08:48 by user root.
Squeeze 6.0.6: Debian kFreeBSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ-VERTEX/1.30, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 256MB (650/900MHz), Audio: Intel (Unknown) HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.0.5
OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6, Kernel: 8.1-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --target=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
System Notes: Python 2.6.6.
Disk Mount Options Notes: rw
Testing initiated at 10 December 2012 21:51 by user root.
Wheezy Testing: Debian Linux
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.4.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,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=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Python 2.7.3rc2.
Testing initiated at 11 December 2012 14:41 by user root.
Wheezy Testing: Debian kFreeBSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: INTEL DX79SI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: OCZ VERTEX 1.30, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel Patsburg HD Audio, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3
OS: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy/sid, Kernel: 9.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --disable-libitm --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --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-kfreebsd-gnu --target=x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic -v
System Notes: Python 2.7.3rc2.
Disk Mount Options Notes: rw
Testing initiated at 12 December 2012 10:14 by user root.