Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Amazon EC2 Cloud
Benchmarks of an Amazon EC2 c3.2xlarge cloud instance running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from a 26 February 2014 development snapshot. Tests by Michael Larabel of Ubuntu Linux in the Amazon EC2 Compute Cloud. Mostly focused on CPU benchmarks but also some other subsystem tests. Benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 12GB
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-58-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 10GB
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor
Dbench
Dbench is a benchmark designed by the Samba project as a free alternative to netbench, but dbench contains only file-system calls for testing the disk performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Parboil
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
Timed Apache Compilation
John The Ripper
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
VP8 libvpx Encoding
GraphicsMagick
x264
FFmpeg
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 12GB
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-58-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor
Compiler Notes: --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
Disk Mount Options Notes: acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,relatime,rw,user_xattr
Testing initiated at 26 February 2014 20:26 by user ubuntu.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 10GB
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor
Testing initiated at 26 February 2014 17:23 by user ubuntu.