Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge Linux OS Benchmarks Amazon EC2 Linux distribution benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. Clear Linux 26600: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Clear Linux OS 26600, Kernel: 4.18.16-80.aws (x86_64), Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Amazon Linux 2: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180303, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM Red Hat RHEL 7.6: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6, Kernel: 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1029-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM SUSE SLES 15: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Graphics: VESA VGA, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, Kernel: 4.12.14-25.25-default (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812], File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: KVM Debian 9.6: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 52GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Device 1d0f:ec20 OS: Debian 9.6, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 504 |= Amazon Linux 2 .... 12601 |======================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 10846 |===================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 10034 |=================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 26853 |==================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 7924 |=============== PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 0.30 |=========== Amazon Linux 2 .... 1.51 |===================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1.48 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 0.54 |=================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 0.55 |=================== Debian 9.6 ........ 0.57 |==================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: sin nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 111 | Amazon Linux 2 .... 42271 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 40930 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 46752 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 42619 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 46283 |=================================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: cos nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 112 | Amazon Linux 2 .... 42257 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 40946 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 46738 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 42624 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 46209 |=================================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 867 |== Amazon Linux 2 .... 14751 |========================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 13462 |======================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 16704 |============================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 29367 |==================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 12297 |====================== PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend micro_bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2.06 |============== Amazon Linux 2 .... 7.61 |===================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 6.99 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2.66 |=================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2.60 |================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2.94 |==================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 616595 |=================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 183288 |=============== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 189598 |================ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 508506 |========================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 518964 |=========================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 401888 |================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 48.04 |================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 114.83 |========================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 139.96 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 102.17 |===================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 111.47 |========================================= Debian 9.6 ........ 106.29 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 792 |===================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 1895 |=================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1427 |======================================= Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1522 |========================================= SUSE SLES 15 ...... 1962 |===================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1497 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 447 |====================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 366 |============================================ Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 198 |======================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 383 |============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 377 |============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 387 |=============================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 363 |=== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2150 |================= Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2616 |===================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 6670 |===================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2514 |==================== Debian 9.6 ........ 4373 |=================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 26.74 |=================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 28.76 |====================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 39.45 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 25.13 |================================= SUSE SLES 15 ...... 27.14 |==================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 24.64 |================================ Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 0.00138016 |======================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 0.00153104 |=========================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 0.00167159 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 0.00106597 |============================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 0.00120120 |================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 0.00105357 |============================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2338 |===================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2715 |=========================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2234 |=================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2444 |======================================= SUSE SLES 15 ...... 3363 |===================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2589 |========================================= Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 21737974182 |============================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 16660335736 |=================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 17365470260 |===================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 14517837996 |=============================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Get Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 54335 |===================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 61977 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 60652 |========================================= SUSE SLES 15 ...... 76164 |==================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 69058 |=============================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: tanh nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 13.52 |===================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 17.25 |================================================ Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 18.86 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 17.55 |================================================ SUSE SLES 15 ...... 17.20 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 17.42 |================================================ SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 19.98 |============================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 16.40 |====================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 19.93 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 20.56 |=============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 19.07 |============================================ Debian 9.6 ........ 22.55 |==================================================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 1277 |======================================= Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1359 |========================================= SUSE SLES 15 ...... 1670 |=================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1744 |===================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: http Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 4996 |======================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 6706 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 5676 |============================================= Debian 9.6 ........ 4937 |======================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2437142 |================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2240555 |============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1798573 |===================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2252581 |============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2262711 |============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1963847 |======================================== Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 17.32 |======================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 23.23 |==================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 18.52 |========================================= Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 19.66 |============================================ SUSE SLES 15 ...... 19.28 |=========================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 18.31 |========================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 1686456 |================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 1590234 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1284526 |====================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1552835 |============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 1575781 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1415144 |========================================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 0.13689614 |======================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 0.15057118 |=========================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 0.16295043 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 0.13998764 |======================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 0.14156635 |========================================= Debian 9.6 ........ 0.14433532 |========================================== Memcached mcperf 1.5.10 Method: Set Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 39955 |================================================ Amazon Linux 2 .... 37119 |============================================ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 37135 |============================================ SUSE SLES 15 ...... 43659 |==================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 42100 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Rotate Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 203 |====================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 176 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 186 |================================================= Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 176 |=============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 189 |================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 180 |================================================ glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: sqrt nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2.64 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2.36 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2.41 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2.33 |=============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2.32 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2.29 |============================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffs nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2.64 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2.35 |=============================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2.41 |================================================ Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2.33 |=============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2.32 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2.29 |============================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 41580 |================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 37369 |============================================= Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 38401 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 39382 |================================================ SUSE SLES 15 ...... 40307 |================================================= Debian 9.6 ........ 42927 |==================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 1733915 |============================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 1934530 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1691919 |============================================ Debian 9.6 ........ 1890672 |================================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 287 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 258 |================================================ Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 268 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 291 |====================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 280 |==================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 88.85 |================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 87.05 |================================================= Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 81.92 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 89.86 |=================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 84.83 |================================================ Debian 9.6 ........ 91.95 |==================================================== Rust Mandelbrot Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 70.89 |=============================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 71.28 |=============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 71.26 |=============================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 71.21 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 78.32 |==================================================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 1.68 |================================================ Amazon Linux 2 .... 1.85 |===================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1.74 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1.73 |================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1.76 |================================================== Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 7.06 |================================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 7.66 |===================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 7.34 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 7.50 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 7.33 |=================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 7.03 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 187 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 178 |=================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 174 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 181 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 189 |====================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 182 |==================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Jython msec < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 4072 |================================================= Amazon Linux 2 .... 4218 |=================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 4367 |===================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 msec < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 4249 |================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 4519 |===================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 4356 |=================================================== Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 8677 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 8163 |================================================== Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 7827768 |================================================ Amazon Linux 2 .... 8186000 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 7740542 |=============================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 8117824 |================================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: pthread_once nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2.32 |=================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2.35 |=================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2.42 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2.34 |=================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2.32 |=================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2.29 |================================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffsll nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 2.32 |=================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 2.35 |==================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 2.41 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 2.35 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 2.32 |=================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 2.29 |================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Eclipse msec < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 22939 |==================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 22898 |==================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 22054 |================================================== m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 119 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 121 |====================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 122 |====================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 120 |===================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 121 |====================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 119 |===================================================== Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 32603 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 32409 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 31843 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 1894 |===================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 1880 |==================================================== Red Hat RHEL 7.6 .. 1882 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 1895 |===================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 1889 |===================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 1900 |===================================================== Rust Prime Benchmark Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Clear Linux 26600 . 15.51 |==================================================== Amazon Linux 2 .... 15.57 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 LTS .. 15.49 |==================================================== SUSE SLES 15 ...... 15.59 |==================================================== Debian 9.6 ........ 15.57 |====================================================