Windows Server 2016 VA vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Mitigations
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with Windows Server 2016 toggling kernel VA Shadow for Meltdown mitigation.
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ebizzy
OSBench
Test: Create Files
CacheBench
Test: Read
PHPBench
PHP Benchmark Suite
OSBench
Test: Launch Programs
IOzone
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
SQLite
Timed SQLite Insertions
CacheBench
Test: Read / Modify / Write
Timed LLVM Compilation
Time To Compile
OSBench
Test: Memory Allocations
PyBench
Total For Average Test Times
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
GIMP
Test: resize
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Composite
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
GIMP
Test: unsharp-mask
GIMP
Test: auto-levels
Java SciMark
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
CacheBench
Test: Write
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 6 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
Diskspd
Threads Per Target: 6 - Write Requests (Percent): 50 - File Size: 1M - Block Size: 4KB
GIMP
Test: unsharp-mask
Redis
Test: LPUSH
GIMP
Test: auto-levels
GIMP
Test: resize
WinSAT
Test: Disk
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.5