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Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS Comparison Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Ubuntu 15.10","Fedora 23","CentOS 7 1511" Processor,,Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,Gigabyte H81M-S1,Gigabyte H81M-S1,Gigabyte H81M-S1 Chipset,,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850 Graphics,,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe Audio,,Realtek ALC887-VD,Realtek ALC887-VD,Realtek ALC887-VD Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 Monitor,,,,DELL P2415Q OS,,Ubuntu 15.10,Fedora 23,CentOS Linux 7 Kernel,,4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64),4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64),3.10.0-327.4.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity,GNOME Shell 3.18.3,GNOME Shell 3.14.4 Display Server,,X Server 1.17.2,,X Server 1.17.2 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.17.2,modesetting 1.18.0,modesetting 1.17.2 OpenGL,,3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 10.6.5 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 5.2.1 20151010,GCC 5.3.1 20151207,GCC 4.8.5 20150623 File-System,,ext4,ext4,xfs Screen Resolution,,1024x768,1024x768,1600x1200 ,,"Ubuntu 15.10","Fedora 23","CentOS 7 1511" "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,185.39,187.27, "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,810.78,696.87,717.95 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,408.83,268.79,199.34 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1957.41,1807.15,1755.58 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2282625.67,2077648.42,2332405.83 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1706687.96,1596901.71,1633045.81 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,37189.48,22865.71,20153.06 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,597.50,595.50, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,,665.13, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,,,592.73 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,14727.13,14344.90,14840.52 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2679.08,2683.51,2645.23 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,283.37,296.05,260.51 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,8120.30,8027.17,8062.79 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,244.31,235.84,244.39 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,6881,6410,6151 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,0.04,1177.53,1060.53 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,2992.59,2564.02,1806.26 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,6830.45,6946.76,4781.27 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,7515.36,7813.28,6262.57 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,24.63,25.50,32.46 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,22.50,22.73,21.50 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,9.91,9.66,9.92 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.69,4.68,4.92 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,28.17,26.09,25.14 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,113.80,106.34,103.02 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,23.51,23.54,23.60 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,9.41,9.47,9.74 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,77,76,84 "PBZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,9.39,9.50, "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.14,7.32 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,11.73,11.80,12.98 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,9.96,9.84, "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,73.28,86.11, "GnuPG - Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption (sec)",LIB,14.25,15.26,483.37