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Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions and against latest DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and PC-BSD as of January 2016. 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.

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Antergos 2015.12
January 11 2016
 
CentOS 7 1511
January 09 2016
 
Clear Linux 5700
January 10 2016
 
Debian Linux 8.2
January 11 2016
 
Debian Testing
January 11 2016
 
Fedora 23
January 09 2016
 
OpenSUSE Linux 42.1
January 12 2016
 
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
January 10 2016
 
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
January 09 2016
 
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January 08 2016
 
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January 12 2016
 
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January 12 2016
 
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FreeBSD/PC-BSD vs. OpenBSD vs. DragonFlyBSD vs. Linux Benchmarks Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions and against latest DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and PC-BSD as of January 2016. 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. Antergos 2015.12: 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: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Antergos Linux 2015.12-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1440 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 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 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 OpenSUSE Linux 42.1: 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: AMD Radeon HD 4550, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: SUSE LINUX 42.1, Kernel: 4.1.13-5-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: xfs, 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 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 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 DragonFlyBSD 4.4.1: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: SATA Samsung SSD 850 EMT0 OS: DragonFly, Kernel: 4.4-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.2.1, File-System: hammer OpenBSD 5.8: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 65GB OS: OpenBSD, Kernel: 5.8 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 20070719, File-System: ffs PC-BSD 10.2: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ALASKA A M I, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB EMT01B6Q + AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 1.00 0001, Graphics: 512MB, Audio: ATI RV730 HDA, Monitor: DELL P2415Q OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 10.2-RELEASE-p10 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.14.7, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.3, Compiler: Clang 3.4.1 (SVN 208032), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7 1511 ....... 717.95 |===================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 1680.01 |================================================ Debian Linux 8.2 .... 708.12 |==================== Debian Testing ...... 872.23 |========================= Fedora 23 ........... 696.87 |==================== OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 873.62 |========================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 856.51 |======================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 394.86 |=========== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 810.78 |======================= OpenBSD 5.8 ......... 108.99 |=== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 1297.70 |===================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better CentOS 7 1511 ....... 199.34 |===================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 400.64 |========================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 375.68 |======================================= Debian Testing ...... 466.25 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 268.79 |============================ OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 281.99 |============================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 271.84 |============================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 369.24 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 408.83 |=========================================== OpenBSD 5.8 ......... 51.32 |===== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 208.07 |====================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Antergos 2015.12 .... 6.02 |====================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 7.32 |=============================================== Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6.66 |========================================== Debian Testing ...... 5.91 |====================================== Fedora 23 ........... 6.14 |======================================= OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 7.42 |=============================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 5.96 |====================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 7.26 |============================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 6.06 |======================================= DragonFlyBSD 4.4.1 .. 6.26 |======================================== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 8.00 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Antergos 2015.12 .... 1956.74 |=============================================== CentOS 7 1511 ....... 1755.58 |=========================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 1862.60 |============================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 1777.69 |=========================================== Debian Testing ...... 1981.26 |================================================ Fedora 23 ........... 1807.15 |============================================ OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 1699.79 |========================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 1971.30 |================================================ Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 1726.65 |========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 1957.41 |=============================================== DragonFlyBSD 4.4.1 .. 1894.99 |============================================== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 1804.15 |============================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Antergos 2015.12 .... 11.58 |========================================= CentOS 7 1511 ....... 12.98 |============================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 12.69 |============================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 12.53 |============================================= Debian Testing ...... 11.90 |========================================== Fedora 23 ........... 11.80 |========================================== OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 12.63 |============================================= OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 11.81 |========================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 12.79 |============================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 11.73 |========================================== OpenBSD 5.8 ......... 14.02 |================================================== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 11.91 |========================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Antergos 2015.12 .... 74.70 |======================================== Clear Linux 5700 .... 77.32 |========================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 93.42 |================================================== Debian Testing ...... 83.18 |============================================= Fedora 23 ........... 86.11 |============================================== OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 71.73 |====================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 73.94 |======================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 73.57 |======================================= Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 73.28 |======================================= DragonFlyBSD 4.4.1 .. 86.73 |============================================== OpenBSD 5.8 ......... 86.21 |============================================== PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 75.70 |========================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Antergos 2015.12 .... 7142 |================================================ CentOS 7 1511 ....... 6151 |========================================= Clear Linux 5700 .... 7356 |================================================= Debian Linux 8.2 .... 6000 |======================================== Debian Testing ...... 7426 |================================================= Fedora 23 ........... 6410 |=========================================== OpenSUSE Linux 42.1 . 6000 |======================================== OpenSUSE Tumbleweed . 6199 |========================================= Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS .. 6522 |=========================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ........ 6881 |============================================== DragonFlyBSD 4.4.1 .. 1059 |======= OpenBSD 5.8 ......... 1280 |========= PC-BSD 10.2 ......... 7659 |=================================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 24.41 |==================================== Antergos 2015.12 ... 28.88 |=========================================== CentOS 7 1511 ...... 32.46 |================================================ Debian Linux 8.2 ... 34.27 |=================================================== Debian Testing ..... 25.52 |====================================== Fedora 23 .......... 25.50 |====================================== Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS . 24.51 |==================================== Ubuntu 15.10 ....... 24.63 |===================================== PC-BSD 10.2 ........ 17.31 |==========================