DigitalOcean Linux Benchmarks DigitalOcean Linux operating system comparison benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 13.10 x64: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 79GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 CentOS 6.5: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 79GB OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 Fedora 19 x64: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 79GB OS: Fedora 19, Kernel: 3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131212, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM QEMU 1.0 Debian 7.0: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 79GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 165.74 |======= CentOS 6.5 ....... 1200.00 |=================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 186.03 |======== Debian 7.0 ....... 270.84 |============ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 105.68 |===================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 258.01 |=================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 137.25 |=========================== Debian 7.0 ....... 265.57 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 71.14 |================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 113.29 |==================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 75.47 |=================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 111.71 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 442.34 |==================================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 416.05 |================================================= Fedora 19 x64 .... 249.46 |============================= Debian 7.0 ....... 357.24 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 2073 |====================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 2389 |============================================ Fedora 19 x64 .... 1623 |============================== Debian 7.0 ....... 2919 |====================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 207.04 |================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 218.82 |==================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 317.39 |==================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 186.83 |=============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 25.00 |====================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 23.92 |==================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 35.32 |===================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 21.43 |================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 2072 |============================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 1965 |=========================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 1397 |============================== Debian 7.0 ....... 2494 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 4960667 |======================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 7601833 |==================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 3823833 |================== Debian 7.0 ....... 10603667 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 33237 |============================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 30335 |========================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 20234 |============================ Debian 7.0 ....... 37923 |===================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 14.92 |================================================ CentOS 6.5 ....... 14.20 |============================================= Fedora 19 x64 .... 9.41 |============================== Debian 7.0 ....... 16.63 |===================================================== x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 53.12 |===================================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 53.25 |===================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 33.05 |================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 968.04 |=========================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 1122.44 |================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 852.42 |====================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 1152.96 |=================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 71.21 |========================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 54.74 |=============================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 92.56 |===================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 65.64 |====================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 111.83 |========================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 80.71 |============================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 141.04 |==================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 89.96 |================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 210.76 |======================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 181.21 |================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 279.96 |==================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 170.42 |================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 49.55 |============================ CentOS 6.5 ....... 94.79 |===================================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 80.30 |============================================= Debian 7.0 ....... 52.09 |============================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 234 |========================================= CentOS 6.5 ....... 189 |================================= Fedora 19 x64 .... 316 |======================================================= Debian 7.0 ....... 206 |==================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 24.08 |============================================ CentOS 6.5 ....... 21.35 |======================================= Fedora 19 x64 .... 29.19 |===================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 21.11 |====================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 28.48 |================================ CentOS 6.5 ....... 29.45 |================================= Fedora 19 x64 .... 43.95 |================================================= Debian 7.0 ....... 47.53 |===================================================== Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 29.03 |===================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 26.75 |================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 276.70 |============================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 278.93 |=============================================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 165.38 |============================ Debian 7.0 ....... 311.10 |==================================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 13387.07 |================================================== Debian 7.0 ....... 11911.75 |============================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 13.10 x64 . 11542.24 |================================================== CentOS 6.5 ....... 4898.58 |===================== Fedora 19 x64 .... 5730.06 |========================= Debian 7.0 ....... 5606.00 |========================