Debian 6.0.10 vs. 7.11 vs. 8.8 vs. 9.0 Benchmarks Debian GNU Linux Tests for a future article on Phoronix. Debian 6.0.10: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.29GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4800, Audio: Realtek ID 892, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 Debian 7.11: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 7.11, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian 8.8: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 8.8, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Server: X Server 1.16.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Debian 9.0: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 4890 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Debian 9.0, Kernel: 4.9.0-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 3.68 |==== Debian 7.11 ... 46.86 |======================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 38.59 |============================================== Debian 9.0 .... 38.25 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 267.58 |======================================================= Debian 7.11 ... 155.23 |================================ Debian 8.8 .... 155.77 |================================ Debian 9.0 .... 162.53 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 349.27 |======================================================= Debian 7.11 ... 294.03 |============================================== Debian 8.8 .... 290.97 |============================================== Debian 9.0 .... 301.17 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 375.80 |================================================ Debian 7.11 ... 407.62 |==================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 430.48 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 428.62 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 201.01 |====================================== Debian 7.11 ... 272.53 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 292.47 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 282.67 |===================================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 53.03 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 . 56.93 |=========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 7.11 . 41.27 |======================================== Debian 8.8 .. 60.20 |========================================================== Debian 9.0 .. 60.20 |========================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Debian 7.11 . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 24.1 MAX: 37.0 Debian 8.8 .. MIN: 3.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 31.0 Debian 9.0 .. MIN: 2.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 24.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 37.47 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 . 40.67 |=========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 61.33 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 60.18 |========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 60.13 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 60.04 |=========================================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 53.58 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 . 55.33 |=========================================================== GLmark2 276 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Score > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 296 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 . 334 |============================================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Debian 8.8 . 3612 |=========================================================== Debian 9.0 . 3685 |============================================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 3.25 |========================================================= Debian 7.11 ... 3.04 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 3.04 |===================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 3.03 |===================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 15.50 |======================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 14.56 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 14.33 |==================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 14.21 |=================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 965.16 |============================================== Debian 7.11 ... 1100.28 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 1126.20 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 1120.27 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 3052 |====================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 3233 |========================================================= Debian 8.8 .... 3182 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 3192 |======================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 105.23 |============================================= Debian 7.11 ... 102.99 |============================================ Debian 8.8 .... 126.69 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 128.75 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 117 |========================================== Debian 7.11 ... 127 |============================================== Debian 8.8 .... 158 |========================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 160 |========================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 1312.47 |============================================= Debian 7.11 ... 1551.81 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 1573.48 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 1580.87 |====================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 33.52 |=============================================== Debian 7.11 ... 39.63 |======================================================= Debian 8.8 .... 40.03 |======================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 17.12 |======================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 197.43 |================================================ Debian 7.11 ... 190.78 |=============================================== Debian 8.8 .... 202.31 |================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 224.93 |======================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 63.07 |======================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 39.90 |=================================== Debian 8.8 .... 35.29 |=============================== Debian 9.0 .... 35.60 |================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 15.41 |======================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 14.61 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 14.08 |=================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 14.15 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 412.13 |===================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 424.20 |======================================================= Debian 8.8 .... 421.43 |======================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 422.20 |======================================================= libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 105.07 |============================================== Debian 7.11 ... 119.38 |===================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 121.71 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 124.60 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 6043.59 |====================================================== Debian 7.11 ... 3116.86 |============================ Debian 8.8 .... 3995.25 |==================================== Debian 9.0 .... 3923.13 |=================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 5026.20 |============================================ Debian 7.11 ... 5753.98 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 6130.99 |====================================================== Debian 9.0 .... 5824.45 |=================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 1735167.21 |========================================== Debian 7.11 ... 2098259.46 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 1988595.62 |================================================ Debian 9.0 .... 1995022.04 |================================================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 6.0.10 . 1088172.67 |===================================== Debian 7.11 ... 1517295.29 |=================================================== Debian 8.8 .... 1446828.63 |================================================= Debian 9.0 .... 1463535.75 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