Proxmox KVM Distro Benchmarks
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest


Ubuntu 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 4096 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

Alpine Linux 3.8.1 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: 4096MB, Disk: 48GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb

	OS: Alpine Linux v3.8 3.8.1, Kernel: 4.14.69-0-virt (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 21.30 |===============================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 326 |=================================================


Flexible IO Tester 3.1
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /
IOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 83433 |===============================================


CacheBench
Test: Read / Modify / Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 13974 |==========================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 22089 |=========================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 3193 |================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 126600 |==============================================


x264 2018-09-25
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 13.39 |=========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 12.73 |=======================================


x265 2.8
H.265 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 1.86 |==========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 1.75 |========================================


7-Zip Compression 16.02
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 8707 |==========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 8790 |==========================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 412.19 |==============================================


Gzip Compression
Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 80.30  |=============================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 108.96 |========================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 22.84 |========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 23.30 |=========================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 73.40 |=========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 74.16 |=========================================


FFmpeg 4.0.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest ....... 13.86 |========================================
Alpine Linux 3.8.1 KVM Guest . 14.33 |=========================================


OpenSSL 1.1.1
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 267 |=================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.29
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 18.04 KVM Guest . 10246 |===============================================