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Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS vs. Clear Linux 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","Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS","OpenSUSE Tumbleweed","Clear Linux 5700" 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),Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,Gigabyte H81M-S1,Gigabyte H81M-S1,Gigabyte H81M-S1,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,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM,Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850 Graphics,,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550,LLVMpipe,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550 Audio,,Realtek ALC887-VD,Realtek ALC887-VD,Realtek ALC887-VD,Intel 8 /C220,Realtek ALC887-VD,Intel 8 /C220 Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 Monitor,,,,DELL P2415Q,,, OS,,Ubuntu 15.10,Fedora 23,CentOS Linux 7,Ubuntu 14.04,openSUSE 20160108,Clear Linux 5700 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),3.19.0-43-generic (x86_64),4.3.3-5-default (x86_64),4.3.3-157 (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity,GNOME Shell 3.18.3,GNOME Shell 3.14.4,Unity 7.2.6,KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server,,X Server 1.17.2,,X Server 1.17.2,X Server 1.17.1,X Server 1.18.0, Display Driver,,modesetting 1.17.2,modesetting 1.18.0,modesetting 1.17.2,modesetting 1.17.1,modesetting 1.18.0, 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,,3.3 Mesa 11.1.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler,,GCC 5.2.1 20151010,GCC 5.3.1 20151207,GCC 4.8.5 20150623,GCC 4.8.4,,GCC 5.3.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,xfs,ext4,xfs,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1024x768,1024x768,1600x1200,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768 ,,"Ubuntu 15.10","Fedora 23","CentOS 7 1511","Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS","OpenSUSE Tumbleweed","Clear Linux 5700" "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,0.04,1177.53,1060.53,2058.16,1168.71,1933.36 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,810.78,696.87,717.95,394.86,856.51,1680.01 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,77,76,84,84,76,27 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,37189.48,22865.71,20153.06,44428.37,,31959.66 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,6830.45,6946.76,4781.27,5369.55,4582.49,6837.80 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2282625.67,2077648.42,2332405.83,2349485.63,2643030.04,3012212.17 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,7515.36,7813.28,6262.57,5825.41,6121.99,7474.23 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,24.63,25.50,32.46,24.51,, "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,28.17,26.09,25.14,26.90,27.11,31.36 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,6.06,6.14,7.32,7.26,5.96, "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,6881,6410,6151,6522,6199,7356 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,73.28,86.11,,73.57,73.94,77.32 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,283.37,296.05,260.51,259.01,292.99,303.73 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1957.41,1807.15,1755.58,1726.65,1971.30,1862.60 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,4.69,4.68,4.92,5.00,4.80,4.51 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,11.73,11.80,12.98,12.79,11.81,12.69 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,113.80,106.34,103.02,108.88,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2679.08,2683.51,2645.23,2669.60,2584.88,2801.21 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,22.50,22.73,21.50,21.64,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,14727.13,14344.90,14840.52,14929.67,15105.94,14847.83 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,244.31,235.84,244.39,244.39,242.33,232.76 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,9.41,9.47,9.74,9.29,, "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,9.91,9.66,9.92,9.87,9.50, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,8120.30,8027.17,8062.79,8198.90,8299.16,8261.15 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,185.39,187.27,,185.47,188.25,185.98 "PBZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,9.39,9.50,,,, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,597.50,595.50,,600.27,595.93,594.87 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,23.51,23.54,23.60,23.61,23.51,23.51 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1706687.96,1596901.71,1633045.81,1825584.37,1710857.08,1891009.96 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,2992.59,2564.02,1806.26,2540.62,1846.75,2495.63 "GnuPG - Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption (sec)",LIB,14.25,15.26,483.37,14.03,, "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,408.83,268.79,199.34,369.24,271.84,400.64