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Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. Debian vs. Clear Linux Comparison Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions. All distributions were cleanly installed and updated. Stock compiler flags used as were the other OS defaults too Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. Ubuntu 15.10: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Fedora 23: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 23, Kernel: 4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.1.0 (git-525f3c2) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20151207, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 CentOS 7 1511: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.4.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.6.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550, Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-43-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 20160108, Kernel: 4.3.3-5-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0 Gallium 0.4, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Clear Linux 5700: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550, Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Clear Linux 5700, Kernel: 4.3.3-157 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Debian Linux 8.2: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel 8 /C220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian 8.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: modesetting 0.9.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Debian Testing: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4550, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.3.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160101, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 37189.48 |======================================== Fedora 23 .......... 22865.71 |========================= CentOS 7 1511 ...... 20153.06 |====================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 44428.37 |================================================ Clear Linux 5700 ... 31959.66 |=================================== Debian Linux 8.2 ... 42125.74 |============================================== Debian Testing ..... 43016.96 |============================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 1668520.91 |======================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 1706687.96 |========================================= Fedora 23 ........... 1596901.71 |====================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 1633045.81 |======================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 1825584.37 |=========================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 1710857.08 |========================================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 1891009.96 |============================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 1619245.48 |======================================= Debian Testing ...... 1761436.90 |========================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 2282625.67 |================================== Fedora 23 ........... 2077648.42 |=============================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 2332405.83 |=================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 2349485.63 |=================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 2643030.04 |======================================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 3012212.17 |============================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 2508756.00 |===================================== Debian Testing ...... 2238617.35 |================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 7515.36 |============================================ Fedora 23 ........... 7813.28 |============================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 6262.57 |===================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 5825.41 |================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 6121.99 |==================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 7474.23 |============================================ Debian Linux 8.2 .... 7700.13 |============================================= Debian Testing ...... 8136.57 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 6830.45 |=============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 6946.76 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 4781.27 |================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 5369.55 |===================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 4582.49 |================================ Clear Linux 5700 .... 6837.80 |=============================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6499.76 |============================================= Debian Testing ...... 6723.91 |============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 2992.59 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 2564.02 |========================================= CentOS 7 1511 ....... 1806.26 |============================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 2540.62 |========================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 1846.75 |============================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 2495.63 |======================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 2483.80 |======================================== Debian Testing ...... 2488.02 |======================================== GnuPG Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 14.28 |=============================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 14.25 |=============================================== Fedora 23 .......... 15.26 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 14.03 |============================================== Debian Linux 8.2 ... 15.54 |=================================================== Debian Testing ..... 13.18 |=========================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 73.28 |======================================= Fedora 23 ........... 86.11 |============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 73.57 |======================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 73.94 |======================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 77.32 |========================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 93.42 |================================================== Debian Testing ...... 83.18 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 11.73 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 11.80 |============================================= CentOS 7 1511 ....... 12.98 |================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 12.79 |================================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 11.81 |============================================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 12.69 |================================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 12.53 |================================================ Debian Testing ...... 11.90 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 6.06 |========================================== Fedora 23 ........... 6.14 |=========================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 7.32 |=================================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 7.26 |=================================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 5.96 |========================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6.66 |============================================== Debian Testing ...... 5.91 |========================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 77 |=========================================== Fedora 23 ........... 76 |========================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 84 |=============================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 84 |=============================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 76 |========================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 27 |=============== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 95 |===================================================== Debian Testing ...... 77 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 113.64 |============================================= Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 113.80 |============================================= Fedora 23 .......... 106.34 |========================================== CentOS 7 1511 ...... 103.02 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 108.88 |=========================================== Debian Linux 8.2 ... 127.66 |================================================== Debian Testing ..... 101.44 |======================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 28.17 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 26.09 |========================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 25.14 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 26.90 |=========================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 27.11 |=========================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 31.36 |================================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 30.42 |================================================= Debian Testing ...... 25.22 |======================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 1957.41 |=============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 1807.15 |============================================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 1755.58 |=========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 1726.65 |========================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 1971.30 |================================================ Clear Linux 5700 .... 1862.60 |============================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 1777.69 |=========================================== Debian Testing ...... 1981.26 |================================================ x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 185.39 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 187.27 |================================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 185.47 |================================================ OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 188.25 |================================================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 185.98 |================================================ Debian Linux 8.2 .... 128.97 |================================== Debian Testing ...... 188.45 |================================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 4.69 |======================================= Fedora 23 ........... 4.68 |======================================= CentOS 7 1511 ....... 4.92 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 5.00 |========================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 4.80 |======================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 4.51 |====================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6.08 |=================================================== Debian Testing ...... 4.78 |======================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 283.37 |============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 296.05 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 260.51 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 259.01 |========================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 292.99 |=============================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 303.73 |================================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 210.21 |================================== Debian Testing ...... 285.65 |============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 6881 |=============================================== Fedora 23 ........... 6410 |============================================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 6151 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 6522 |============================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 6199 |=========================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 7356 |=================================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6000 |========================================= Debian Testing ...... 7426 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 408.83 |=========================================== Fedora 23 ........... 268.79 |============================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 199.34 |===================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 369.24 |======================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 271.84 |============================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 400.64 |========================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 375.68 |======================================= Debian Testing ...... 466.25 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 810.78 |======================= Fedora 23 ........... 696.87 |==================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 717.95 |===================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 394.86 |=========== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 856.51 |======================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 1680.01 |================================================ Debian Linux 8.2 .... 708.12 |==================== Debian Testing ...... 872.23 |========================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 24.41 |==================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 24.63 |===================================== Fedora 23 .......... 25.50 |====================================== CentOS 7 1511 ...... 32.46 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 24.51 |==================================== Debian Linux 8.2 ... 34.27 |=================================================== Debian Testing ..... 25.52 |======================================