Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. EL 7.5

Scientific Linux 6.9, 6.10, 7.5 benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. Scientific Linux is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources..

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Scientific Linux 6.9
July 07 2018
  1 Hour, 8 Minutes
Scientific Linux 6.10
July 08 2018
  1 Hour, 19 Minutes
Scientific Linux 7.5
July 08 2018
  1 Hour, 3 Minutes
Fedora Server 28
July 08 2018
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Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. EL 7.5, "7-Zip Compression 16.02 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",135540,140649,131077,139499 "Scientific Linux 6.9",154238,147028,155166 "Scientific Linux 6.10",147666,146704,148325 "Scientific Linux 7.5",153213,152431,154441 "Fedora Server 28",136751,137747,141725 "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",43.122616052628,43.123618841171,43.131438970566 "asmFish 2017-09-19 - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",80692885,85703003,83307632 "Scientific Linux 6.10",81401007,83366869,81295205 "Scientific Linux 7.5",84597660,85749696,81175744 "Fedora Server 28",81393799,83130120,80944412 "Blender 2.79a - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",6.095,6.167,6.834,6.33,6.384,6.937 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",1533.3,1557.85,1548.28 "Scientific Linux 6.10",1418.26,1460.88,1476.49 "Scientific Linux 7.5",1432.34,1471.13,1434.06 "Fedora Server 28",1694.29,1694.91,1742.39 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",303.18,305.48,295.42 "Scientific Linux 6.10",256.67,277,257.37 "Scientific Linux 7.5",198.39,208.91,207.9 "Fedora Server 28",238.42,253.06,258.82 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",965.16,943.19,956.87 "Scientific Linux 6.10",726.1,758.15,716.88 "Scientific Linux 7.5",675.13,662.43,654.93 "Fedora Server 28",2219.93,2152.4,2204.35 "Crafty 25.2 - Elapsed Time", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",7749113,7787369,7783806 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",23.174865007401,22.968094110489,23.014683008194 "Scientific Linux 6.10",23.299075126648,23.094590902328,23.111043930054 "Scientific Linux 7.5",21.758538961411,21.520335912704,21.615412950516 "ebizzy 0.3 - ", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",64597,53912,47991,66161,63315,63501 "Scientific Linux 6.10",41529,49785,60320,51586,65333,55176 "Scientific Linux 7.5",477413,494050,488272 "Fedora Server 28",883908,973072,987145,934313,985232,1072356 "Fhourstones 3.1 - Complex Connect-4 Solving", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",12952.3,12952.5,12935.3 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",10.494961023331,10.51989197731,10.395421028137,10.512199878693,10.505712985992 "Scientific Linux 6.9",12.533144950867,12.700911998749,12.585730075836,12.624992132187,12.589423894882 "Scientific Linux 6.10",12.659515857697,12.779418945312,12.673687934875,12.802546024323,12.666259050369 "Scientific Linux 7.5",12.011445045471,11.97864484787,12.068893909454,12.019626140594,11.787257909775 "Fedora Server 28",10.366733074188,10.534754037857,10.363543987274,10.497422218323,10.490472078323 "Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",6.4224319458008,6.403666973114,6.4152491092682 "Scientific Linux 6.9",5.7104001045227,5.7344760894775,5.7153470516205 "Scientific Linux 6.10",5.8620049953461,6.0110359191895,5.9039208889008 "Scientific Linux 7.5",6.4988760948181,6.30064702034,6.407781124115 "Fedora Server 28",6.5395729541779,6.3709311485291,6.3844749927521 "Go Benchmarks - Test: build", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",20226696462,20484527184,20380003058 "Go Benchmarks - Test: http", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",8467,8597,8531 "Go Benchmarks - Test: json", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",2563195,2540542,2635847 "Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",857713,866669,856088 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 - Operation: HWB Color Space", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",215,216,216 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",181,175,172 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.28 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Gzip Compression - Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",42.875981092453,42.260262012482,42.898874998093 "Scientific Linux 6.10",43.138073921204,43.205013990402,42.69163107872 "Scientific Linux 7.5",43.670463085175,42.896926879883,43.064647912979 "Fedora Server 28",43.550330877304,41.475965023041,41.476747989655 "Hackbench - Count: 8 - Type: Thread", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",31.928,36.54,36.915,36.862,37.954,37.532 "Scientific Linux 6.10",34.345,39.587,33.699,42.218,34.424,42.733 "Scientific Linux 7.5",14.636,13.934,16.397,15.86,15.692,14.052 "Fedora Server 28",12.549,12.434,12.381 "Hackbench - Count: 8 - Type: Process", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",11.904,11.66,12.052 "Scientific Linux 6.10",12.59,12.637,13.289 "Scientific Linux 7.5",10.73,10.753,10.718 "Fedora Server 28",9.155,9.213,9.365 "John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",18413,39672,43596,34290,18386,19034 "Scientific Linux 6.10",18926,42660,18917,20617,19286,18468 "Scientific Linux 7.5",48935,48287,47340 "John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",16392000,129958000,147439000,16416000,154906000,132284000 "Scientific Linux 6.10",16343000,16384000,76436000,19070000,16359000,16400000 "Scientific Linux 7.5",159563000,161072000,161611000 "John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 - Test: MD5", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",936960,976704 "Scientific Linux 6.10",450240,191808,191712,192287,195072,191904 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",32.999529123306,33.03642821312,33.001083135605 "Scientific Linux 6.10",32.777430772781,32.861190080643,32.754568099976 "Scientific Linux 7.5",32.712383031845,32.761408090591,32.978554010391 "Fedora Server 28",32.360581159592,32.338351011276,32.360139131546 "libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.3 - Test: Decompression Throughput", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",161.210742,161.274306,160.710218 "LuaJIT 2.0.5 - Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",1328.92,1329.7,1337.11 "Scientific Linux 6.10",1327.14,1338.93,1335.64 "Scientific Linux 7.5",1344.98,1301.28,1339.38 "Fedora Server 28",1357.35,1357.12,1355.45 "Minion 1.8 - Benchmark: Graceful", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",54.617758,54.906921,54.540968 "Minion 1.8 - Benchmark: Quasigroup", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",116.760508,114.895492,117.273899 "Minion 1.8 - Benchmark: Solitaire", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",75.427678,75.569297,75.639979 "OpenSSL 1.1.0f - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",4972.6,5165.8,5144.7 "Scientific Linux 6.10",4965.8,5214.4,5205.9 "Scientific Linux 7.5",7930,7934.9,7900.7 "Fedora Server 28",7777.1,7758.9,7909.3 "OSBench - Test: Create Files", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",45.328242,45.997956,46.693442 "OSBench - Test: Create Processes", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",43.540001,43.399334,43.08939 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",25.949478,26.710033,26.109219 "OSBench - Test: Launch Programs", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",50.342083,51.608086,50.837994 "OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",97.466946,97.781897,96.532822 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",2.2078518867493 "Scientific Linux 6.10",2.3521509170532,2.0211958885193 "Scientific Linux 7.5",2.4438169002533 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Pod2html", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",0.11965796150794,0.11954467698413,0.11918367460317 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Interpreter", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",0.0038292481901893,0.0038667579355961,0.0038245675 "PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",586193,589092,582063 "Scientific Linux 6.9",157390,158170,157113 "Scientific Linux 6.10",159208,149848,158434 "Scientific Linux 7.5",206611,207184,208764 "Fedora Server 28",587451,588395,586796 "PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",534886.647737,513113.033548,524132.211516 "Scientific Linux 6.10",468728.33066,457486.25487,464257.62059 "Scientific Linux 7.5",552840.897483,561197.795007,545678.490239 "Fedora Server 28",581900.564159,571179.456456,583122.650938 "PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",8774.894462,8772.035897,8649.143181 "Scientific Linux 6.10",8148.181251,8229.291707,8283.974044 "Scientific Linux 7.5",8829.376565,8812.031632,8774.511384 "Fedora Server 28",8800.722254,8795.377212,8791.153293 "Primesieve 6.2 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",10.248,10.415,10.416 "PyBench 2018-02-16 - Total For Average Test Times", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",1449,1456,1446 "Redis 4.0.8 - Test: GET", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",1552795,1517450.75,1522070 "Scientific Linux 6.10",1531393.62,1364256.5,1455604.12,1377410.5,1567398.12,1381215.5 "Scientific Linux 7.5",1474926.25,1488095.25,1497006 "Fedora Server 28",2145922.75,2247191,2159827.25 "Redis 4.0.8 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",1052631.62,1044932.06,1053740.75 "Scientific Linux 6.10",1011122.31,1014198.81,975609.75 "Scientific Linux 7.5",1169590.62,1175088.12,1129943.5 "Fedora Server 28",1605136.38,1739130.5,1597444.12,1631321.38,1432664.75,1600000 "Schbench - Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",108,109,111 "Scientific Linux 6.10", "Scientific Linux 7.5",114,124,113,116,119,125 "Fedora Server 28", "Schbench - Message Threads: 6 - Workers Per Message Thread: 6", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",123,129,122 "Scientific Linux 6.10",133,127,143,132,131,127 "Scientific Linux 7.5",135,134,130 "Fedora Server 28",122,120,122 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",593.59,592.87,592.62 "SQLite 3.22 - Timed SQLite Insertions", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",46.258302927017,46.179131031036,46.225394010544 "Scientific Linux 6.10",47.746922969818,47.692157030106,47.673567056656 "Scientific Linux 7.5",48.704792976379,48.4551820755,48.561356067657 "Fedora Server 28",50.758278846741,50.761155843735,50.846374034882 "Stockfish 9 - Total Time", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",71919744,71335618,71582706 "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Total", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Userspace", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28", "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",27.516310930252,24.761642932892,24.710052013397,24.651020050049,24.56202507019,24.483140945435 "Scientific Linux 6.10",29.998309850693,26.50293803215,26.71053314209,26.449609041214,26.445688962936,26.441488027573 "Scientific Linux 7.5",31.10511302948,27.17014503479,27.434464931488,27.304312944412,27.299278974533,27.489531993866 "Fedora Server 28",33.124605178833,28.766381025314,28.851812124252,29.014449834824,28.762023925781,28.7853910923 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",3.5179190635681,3.6326169967651,3.5705997943878 "Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",37.639219045639,38.777049779892,38.806324005127 "Scientific Linux 6.10",39.168431043625,39.834400177002,39.231778144836 "Scientific Linux 7.5",44.682090044022,45.026659011841,45.030864953995 "Fedora Server 28",50.692445993423,51.215417146683,52.473241090775 "Y-Cruncher 0.7.5.9481 - Calculating 500M Pi Digits", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",12.371,12.453,12.413 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19", Lower Results Are Better "Fedora Server 28",150.58380007744,150.99042010307,151.60348391533 "Zstd Compression 1.3.4 - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19", Lower Results Are Better "Scientific Linux 6.9",110.07727408409,114.20085096359,114.122838974 "Scientific Linux 6.10",144.36138105392,113.63921904564,114.68632483482,113.22977209091,113.76255393028,113.27258896828 "Scientific Linux 7.5",109.34700489044,106.29720497131,107.32363009453 "Fedora Server 28",121.83407998085,121.81259489059,121.75542783737