Linux 4.17 Kernel Tests Linux 4.17 kernel benchmarks against Liquorix kernel. Tests for a future article. Linux 4.17.3: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1301 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.17.3-041703-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.1- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Liquorix 4.17: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 2.60GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1301 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8064MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.17.0-3.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.1- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1301 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.1- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 17.94 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 15.30 |===================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 18.13 |============================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 161.77 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 146.77 |====================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 166.30 |=========================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 126.60 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 103.70 |=================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 120.75 |========================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 70.02 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 70.15 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 69.87 |============================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 2428.93 |====================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 2688.73 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 2591.93 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 913.80 |==================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 1938.78 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 935.63 |==================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 652.24 |======================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 715.19 |=========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 659.68 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 2887.81 |======================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 3083.03 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 2969.71 |======================================== ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 204.07 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 126.87 |========================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 207.80 |=========================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 218.61 |====================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 192.48 |================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 246.83 |=========================================== Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 25.14 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 25.14 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 25.18 |============================================ Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Low - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 59.30 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 59.30 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 59.30 |============================================ Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: Medium - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 25.40 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 25.40 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 25.40 |============================================ Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Mode: Fullscreen - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 27.69 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 27.72 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 27.57 |============================================ Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 369.60 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 301.69 |=================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 368.80 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 289.16 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 254.79 |====================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 285.38 |========================================== Xonotic 0.8.2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 235.84 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 214.82 |======================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 223.61 |========================================= ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 39.00 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 39.06 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 39.47 |============================================ ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Many Spheres - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 3910.48 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 3916.44 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 3957.18 |========================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 161.01 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 156.21 |========================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 164.86 |=========================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Volume - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 MiVoxels / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 2576.17 |========================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 2499.44 |======================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 2637.73 |========================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 226.30 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 229.81 |=========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 232.50 |=========================================== ParaView 5.4.1 Test: Wavelet Contour - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 MiPolys / Sec > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 2358.28 |========================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 2394.93 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 2422.96 |========================================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 140.03 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 136.87 |========================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 143.60 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 37.19 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 38.19 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 37.19 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 8.74 |============================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 8.70 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 8.73 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 28.50 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 28.46 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 28.71 |============================================ Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 0.10552247 |======================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 0.10527385 |======================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 0.10597235 |======================================= Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 0.00242788 |======================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 0.00232894 |===================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 0.00240185 |======================================= R Benchmark Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 0.6564 |=========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 0.6592 |=========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 0.6589 |=========================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 5.25 |============================================ Liquorix 4.17 ............. 5.40 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 5.19 |=========================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 8.26 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 8.77 |============================================= Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 8.25 |========================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 15.36 |================================= Liquorix 4.17 ............. 20.65 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 15.46 |================================= Blender 2.79a Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better Linux 4.17.3 .............. 538.63 |========================================== Liquorix 4.17 ............. 548.72 |=========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 Stock Kernel . 538.75 |==========================================