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