November Desktop and Server Benchmarks
Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 KVM Virtual Machine


Debian 9 KVM Guest: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 59GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Debian 9.5, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: qemu

Centos 7.5 KVM Virtual Machine: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 59GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM

Centos 7.5 KVM Guest: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 59GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM

Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 43GB QEMU HDD, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 20.07 |======================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 20.33 |=======================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 21.00 |========================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 213 |==========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 209 |=========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 208 |=========================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory
IOPS > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 54467 |========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 53600 |=======================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 53367 |=======================================


CacheBench
Test: Read / Modify / Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 21994 |========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 14132 |==========================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 13970 |=========================


x264 2018-09-25
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 12.57 |========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 12.54 |========================================


x265 2.8
H.265 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 1.76 |=======================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 1.85 |=========================================


7-Zip Compression 16.02
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 8447 |=======================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 8224 |======================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 8768 |=========================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 414 |==========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 348 |===================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 411 |==========================================


Gzip Compression
Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 83.43 |=====================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 89.68 |========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 88.37 |=======================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 23.19 |=====================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 25.27 |========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 23.07 |=====================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 74.19 |=======================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 76.16 |========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 74.38 |=======================================


FFmpeg 4.0.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 14.07 |================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 13.16 |==============================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 17.53 |========================================


OpenSSL 1.1.1
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 267 |==========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 266 |==========================================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 254 |========================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.29
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Debian 9 KVM Guest ............ 13479 |========================================
Centos 7.5 KVM Guest .......... 6489  |===================
Ubuntu Server 18.04 KVM Guest . 7334  |======================