Very Large Linux Distribution Performance Comparison

Very Big Linux distribution performance testing. Benchmarking many different BSD and Linux operating systems for a future article on Phoronix.com. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel.

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C/C++ Compiler Tests 10 Tests
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PC-BSD 9.1
May 16 2013
 
DragonFlyBSD 3.4.1
May 16 2013
 
CentOS 6.4
May 17 2013
 
Fedora 18
May 25 2013
 
Ubuntu 13.04
May 16 2013
 
Linux Mint 15 RC
May 17 2013
 
Mageia 3
May 26 2013
 
openSUSE 12.3
May 26 2013
 
Manjaro 0.8.5
May 29 2013
 
Debian Linux 7.0
May 29 2013
 
Debian kFreeBSD 7.0
June 09 2013
 
PCLinuxOS 2013
June 19 2013
 
Sabayon Linux 13.04
June 20 2013
 
ROSA 2012 R1 LXDE
June 22 2013
 
antiX 13.1
June 23 2013
 
Calculate Linux 13.6
June 24 2013
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04
July 07 2013
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04 before upgrade to 13.10
October 19 2013
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10
October 19 2013
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10 before upgrade to 14.04
April 22 2014
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04
April 26 2014
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04 before upgrade to 14.10
October 23 2014
 
LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.10
December 23 2014
 
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Very Large Linux Distribution Performance Comparison Very Big Linux distribution performance testing. Benchmarking many different BSD and Linux operating systems for a future article on Phoronix.com. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel. ,,"DragonFlyBSD 3.4.1","PC-BSD 9.1","Ubuntu 13.04","Linux Mint 15 RC","CentOS 6.4","Fedora 18","Mageia 3","openSUSE 12.3","Manjaro 0.8.5","Debian Linux 7.0","Debian kFreeBSD 7.0","PCLinuxOS 2013","Sabayon Linux 13.04","ROSA 2012 R1 LXDE","antiX 13.1","Calculate Linux 13.6","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04 before upgrade to 13.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10 before upgrade to 14.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04 before upgrade to 14.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.10" Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.30GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 380U @ 1.33GHz (4 Cores) Memory,,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz,8192MB,8192MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,SATA OCZ VERTEX 1.30,OCZ VERTEX 1.30,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,OCZ VERTEX 1.30,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX,64GB OCZ VERTEX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed,64GB OCZ VERTEX + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed,64GB OCZ VERTEX,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505,500GB HITACHI HTS54505 Graphics,,,ATI Radeon HD 4650,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,ATI Radeon HD 4600 512MB (650/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB (650/900MHz),AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB,Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV730 512MB,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP Audio,,,ATI RV730 HDA,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Intel C600/X79,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Intel Patsburg HD Audio,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Conexant CX20582 (Pebble),Intel 5 /3400 Monitor,,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W,,,,,,, Network,,,Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.3.2,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel PRO/1000 Connection 7.2.3,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection,,Realtek RTL8111/8168 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,Realtek RTL8111/8168 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7260,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7260 Motherboard,,,,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,INTEL DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,Intel DX79SI,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21,LENOVO 0217A21 Chipset,,,,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,Intel Xeon E5/Core,,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM OS,,DragonFly,FreeBSD,Ubuntu 13.04,LinuxMint 15,CentOS 6.4,Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow),Mageia 3,openSUSE 12.3,ManjaroLinux 0.8.5,Debian 7.0,Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0,PCLinuxOS 2013,Sabayon n/a,RosaDesktop.Fresh 2012.1,antiX-13.1_x64-full Luddite 19 June 2013,Calculate Linux Desktop 13.6 KDE,Ubuntu 13.04,Ubuntu 13.04,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 14.04,Ubuntu 14.10 Kernel,,3.4-RELEASE (x86_64),9.1-RELEASE (x86_64),3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64),2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64),3.9.3-201.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64),3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3 (x86_64),3.7.10-1.1-desktop (x86_64),3.8.11-1-MANJARO (x86_64),3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64),9.0-2-amd64 (x86_64),3.2.18-pclos2.bfs (x86_64),3.8.0-sabayon (x86_64),3.8.12-nrj-laptop-2rosa (x86_64),3.7.10-antix.4-amd64-smp (x86_64),3.9.6-calculate (x86_64),3.8.0-26-generic (x86_64),3.8.0-31-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-19-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64),3.16.0-28-generic (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.7.2,Clang 3.1 (SVN 156863) + GCC 4.2.1 20070831,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.4.7 20120313,GCC 4.7.2 20121109,GCC 4.7.2,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.8.0 20130502,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.7.2,GCC 4.7.3 20121001,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.6.3 + LLVM 3.1,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.7,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.9.1 File-System,,hammer,zfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ufs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Desktop,,,KDE 4.9.3,Unity 7.0.0,Cinnamon 1.8.2,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1,LXDE 0.5.10,KDE 4.10.00,Xfce 4.10,GNOME 3.4.2.1,Xfce 4.8,KDE 4.10.1,KDE 4.10.3,LXDE 0.5.12,,KDE 4.10.4,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.1.2,Unity 7.2.0,Unity 7.2.2,Unity 7.3.1 Display Server,,,X Server 1.10.6,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.4,X Server 1.13.2,X Server 1.14.1,X Server 1.12.4,X Server 1.12.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.12.4,X Server 1.13.4,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.14.3,X Server 1.14.5,X Server 1.15.1,X Server 1.15.1,X Server 1.16.0 Display Driver,,,vesa 2.3.0,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 6.99.99,radeon 6.99.99,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 7.0.0,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,fglrx 8.96.4,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 7.1.0,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 7.0.0,intel 2.21.6,intel 2.21.6,intel 2.99.904,intel 2.99.904,intel 2.99.910,intel 2.99.910,intel 2.99.914 OpenGL,,,2.1 Mesa 7.11.2,3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 9.1.2 Gallium 0.4,,3.1 Mesa 9.1.1 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4,3.3.11631,3.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.0.1 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4,3.0 Mesa 9.1.2 Gallium 0.4,,,,2.1 Mesa 9.2.1,2.1 Mesa 10.1.0,2.1 Mesa 10.1.3,2.1 Mesa 10.3.0 Screen Resolution,,,1280x1024,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1366x768,1366x768,1366x768,1366x768,1366x768,1366x768,1366x768 ,,"DragonFlyBSD 3.4.1","PC-BSD 9.1","Ubuntu 13.04","Linux Mint 15 RC","CentOS 6.4","Fedora 18","Mageia 3","openSUSE 12.3","Manjaro 0.8.5","Debian Linux 7.0","Debian kFreeBSD 7.0","PCLinuxOS 2013","Sabayon Linux 13.04","ROSA 2012 R1 LXDE","antiX 13.1","Calculate Linux 13.6","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.04 before upgrade to 13.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu13.10 before upgrade to 14.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.04 before upgrade to 14.10","LenovoTPedge13Ubuntu14.10" "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,,,368.91,367.89,232.28,357.82,356.19,375.73,,344.67,,274.38,,,325.53,335.09,138.28,134.82,127.82,126.51,126.99,127.19,128.37 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,,,18.42,18.29,,17.32,12.92,12.57,17.67,18.75,,11.94,,17.47,18.47,17.09,53.34,52.80,52.86,52.71,53.92,52.36,50.12 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,,,64,64,66,75,88,72,72,67,,,67,,67,62,641,636,634,637,647,628,631 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,,,213.81,212.89,,215.60,186.19,217.92,217.11,,,224.99,,214.00,,219.11,24.30,24.62,24.61,24.60,23.69,24.84,24.71 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,,,39.52,34.44,34.22,48.37,40.11,34.57,39.97,,,105.46,38.21,39.94,29.77,38.59,21.09,21.39,23.49,23.27,22.66,23.58,19.62 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,,14.60,,14.17,14.67,15.47,14.60,14.67,,,50.57,14.37,14.47,21.30,13.90,33.93,34.13,38.00,38.30,35.53,37.73,11.37 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,,,24.93,22.53,30.61,21.39,24.02,28.23,25.03,1,,67.83,23.95,30.46,25.73,27.91,13.39,13.52,14.50,14.45,13.69,14.34,10.74 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,,21984.80,14365.59,14471.02,,8833.79,12107.53,,11566.47,15987.95,19560.12,,15125.96,10731.94,14997.76,23600.06,7244.45,5996.94,6014.85,6027.22,5335.12,6258.88,5668.45 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,,120.77,121.43,121.40,121.33,121.00,102.20,121.40,121.47,121.80,,121.23,121.17,121.43,121.80,120.53,28.90,29,29.30,29.30,29.17,29.33,29.40 "Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,,8.75,9.13,9.03,,,11.13,,,9.14,,8.89,9.66,9.24,,10.19,93.69,92.82,92.68,93.00,95.55,92.38,93.20 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,,14.14,13.48,13.50,13.62,13.80,16.36,14.00,14.02,14.10,,13.57,14.20,13.52,14.12,13.88,47.80,47.69,47.19,47.20,47.49,47.11,47.12 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,,21.03,22.65,22.73,21.45,23.10,25.99,23.35,24.49,21.83,25.80,,26.22,24.49,21.89,22.52,146.39,144.48,149.60,150.24,157.25,146.41,153.07 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,,88.90,85.56,85.92,83.80,87.67,96.59,86.94,86.93,90.33,,,86.95,,89.98,88.26,554.82,543.81,546.29,546.19,575.97,536.60,539.92 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,24.82,25.29,25.83,25.90,24.63,26.98,,,26.08,25.68,27.38,,26.63,,25.69,28.41,234.76,232.47,231.76,232.71,237.42,230.51,231.20 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,56.58,61.13,54.37,54.54,55.61,55.84,66.10,56.11,54.73,55.02,59.32,,56.14,,55.31,55.38,543.93,535.31,533.75,538.97,551.17,530.59,531.98 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,23.34,30.75,22.85,23.05,32.59,23.49,27.58,23.59,19.40,23.13,23.90,30.22,23.23,22.98,22.92,30.61,193.10,190.89,190.67,191.25,195.25,188.98,189.86 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,4326,22180,25150,25234,25051,24403,23393,24731,24648,24820,23482,,24304,25118,24678,25074,3196,2977,3281,3283,3134,3164,3348 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1666.91,827.76,1644.11,1635.92,1668.55,1582.07,1397.44,1601.79,1616.50,1614.37,1613.60,1676.33,1602.09,1597.05,1608.15,1512.16,528.64,532.80,537.60,537.46,532.28,537.94,536.68 "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,12813.90,12816.87,12923.80,12954.40,13593.03,13292.90,10683.47,13355.73,12559.23,12773.97,13319.23,13603.03,13270.77,12695.83,13296.57,12755.73,3975.97,4047.53,4055.33,3976.87,4250.00,4165.37,4262.87 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,308,102,5210,5208,4658,4491,4512,4786,4934,5065,,5034,5319,5396,5245,5396,568,1693,1648,1645,912,817,1512