Amazon EC2 Linux Boot Times

KVM testing on Clear Linux OS 26700 via the Phoronix Test Suite.

HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1812058-SK-BOOTS024850.

ProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskNetworkOSKernelCompilerFile-SystemSystem Layerm5.largem5.2xlarge Clear Linux Amazon Linux 2 Ubuntu 18.04 Clear LinuxIntel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.13GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads)Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS)Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC8192MB52GB Amazon Elastic Block StoreAmazon ElasticClear Linux OS 267004.18.16-80.aws (x86_64)GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0ext4KVMIntel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.12GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads)Amazon Linux 24.14.77-81.59.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64)xfsIntel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.11GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads)Ubuntu 18.044.15.0-1029-aws (x86_64)GCC 7.3.0ext4Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 3.13GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads)Amazon EC2 m5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS)31744MBClear Linux OS 267004.18.16-80.aws (x86_64)GCC 8.2.1 20180502 + Clang 7.0.0 + LLVM 7.0.0OpenBenchmarking.orgEnvironment Details- m5.large: Clear Linux, m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux: CFFLAGS=-g-O3-feliminate-unused-debug-types-pipe-Wall-Wp-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2-fexceptions-fstack-protector--param=ssp-buffer-size=32-Wl--copy-dt-needed-entries-m64-fasynchronous-unwind-tables-Wp-D_REENTRANT-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns-Wl-z-Wl now-Wl-z-Wl relro-malign-data=abi-fno-semantic-interposition-ftree-vectorize-ftree-loop-vectorize-Wl-sort-common-Wl--enable-new-dtags CFLAGS=-g-O3-feliminate-unused-debug-types-pipe-Wall-Wp-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2-fexceptions-fstack-protector--param=ssp-buffer-size=32-Wformat-Wformat-security-Wl--copy-dt-needed-entries-m64-fasynchronous-unwind-tables-Wp-D_REENTRANT-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns-Wl-z-Wl relro-fno-semantic-interposition-ffat-lto-objects-fno-signed-zeros-fno-trapping-math-fassociative-math-Wl-sort-common-Wl--enable-new-dtags CXXFLAGS=-g-O3-feliminate-unused-debug-types-pipe-Wall-Wp-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2-fexceptions-fstack-protector--param=ssp-buffer-size=32-Wformat-Wformat-security-Wl--copy-dt-needed-entries-m64-fasynchronous-unwind-tables-Wp-D_REENTRANT-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns-Wl-z-Wl relro-fno-semantic-interposition-ffat-lto-objects-fno-signed-zeros-fno-trapping-math-fassociative-math-Wl-sort-common-Wl--enable-new-dtags-fvisibility-inlines-hidden-Wl--enable-new-dtags FFLAGS=-g-O3-feliminate-unused-debug-types-pipe-Wall-Wp-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2-fexceptions-fstack-protector--param=ssp-buffer-size=32-Wl--copy-dt-needed-entries-m64-fasynchronous-unwind-tables-Wp-D_REENTRANT-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns-Wl-z-Wl relro-malign-data=abi-fno-semantic-interposition-ftree-vectorize-ftree-loop-vectorize-Wl--enable-new-dtags THEANO_FLAGS=floatX=float32 openmp=true gcc.cxxflags="-ftree-vectorize-mavx" Python Details- m5.large: Clear Linux: Python 3.7.1- m5.large: Amazon Linux 2: Python 2.7.14- m5.large: Ubuntu 18.04: Python 2.7.15rc1 + Python 3.6.7- m5.2xlarge: Clear Linux: Python 3.7.1Security Details- KPTI + __user pointer sanitization + Full generic retpoline + PTE InversionKernel Details- m5.large: Amazon Linux 2: nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295

systemd-boot-total: Totalsystemd-boot-total: Kernelsystemd-boot-total: Userspacem5.largem5.2xlarge Clear Linux Amazon Linux 2 Ubuntu 18.04 Clear Linux10693826871779318221597116826610010726823305519OpenBenchmarking.org

Systemd Total Boot Time

Test: Total

m5.largem5.2xlargeOpenBenchmarking.orgms, Fewer Is BetterSystemd Total Boot TimeTest: TotalClear LinuxAmazon Linux 2Ubuntu 18.044K8K12K16K20K10691779316826823

Systemd Total Boot Time

Test: Kernel

m5.largem5.2xlargeOpenBenchmarking.orgms, Fewer Is BetterSystemd Total Boot TimeTest: KernelClear LinuxAmazon Linux 2Ubuntu 18.041300260039005200650038218226100305

Systemd Total Boot Time

Test: Userspace

m5.largem5.2xlargeOpenBenchmarking.orgms, Fewer Is BetterSystemd Total Boot TimeTest: UserspaceClear LinuxAmazon Linux 2Ubuntu 18.043K6K9K12K15K6871597110726519

Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4