RHEL Meltdown/Spectre Performance Impact
Test server performance with/without Meltdown/Spectre patches on RHEL 7.x system


esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E7-8860 v3 @ 2.19GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 54GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3

	OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4, Kernel: 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 1728 |============================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 8079.18 |=========================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 5273.60 |=========================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 5893.26 |=========================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 5893.32 |=========================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 151.99 |==========================================


Gcrypt Library 1.4.4
CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher
Microseconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 6283 |============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 328 |=============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 37 |==============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 578.13 |==========================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 323.45 |==========================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 151.20 |==========================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: 3000 Fall
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 16.76 |===========================================


Bullet Physics Engine 2.81
Test: Convex Trimesh
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 4.60 |============================================


LZMA Compression
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 957.03 |==========================================


Crafty 23.4
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 237.20 |==========================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 42.58 |===========================================


POV-Ray 3.7.0
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 2048.81 |=========================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 42.30 |===========================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 3128.85 |=========================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
esx_no_patch-rhel_no_patch . 57138 |===========================================