FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS vs. ZoL Benchmarks FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS benchmarks for a future article. FreeBSD iX ZoL: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630, Audio: Intel Sunrise Point HDA OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 12.0-STABLE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 8.0.0 (SVN 356365), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 800x600 FreeBSD ZFS: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630, Audio: Intel Sunrise Point HDA OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 12.0-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 6.0.1 (SVN 335540), File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 800x600 FreeBSD UFS: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630, Audio: Intel Sunrise Point HDA OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 12.0-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 6.0.1 (SVN 335540), File-System: ufs, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS (4401 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630 3GB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK + DELL P2415Q, Network: 2 x Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS (4401 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630 3GB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK + DELL P2415Q, Network: 2 x Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.8, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 2489 |======================= FreeBSD ZFS ....... 2514 |======================== FreeBSD UFS ....... 4060 |====================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 5644 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 2237 |===================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 132.00 |======== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 252.00 |=============== FreeBSD UFS ....... 845.00 |=================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 60.99 |==== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 100.66 |====== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 423 |======== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 490 |========= FreeBSD UFS ....... 2843 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 226 |==== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 312 |====== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 911 |============================= FreeBSD ZFS ....... 855 |=========================== FreeBSD UFS ....... 1672 |===================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 1313 |========================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 893 |============================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 7076 |===================================================== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 6947 |==================================================== FreeBSD UFS ....... 3796 |============================ Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 6697 |================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 3886 |============================= SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 22.38 |============================== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 27.21 |==================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 39.35 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 27.04 |==================================== BlogBench 1.1 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 4178 |====== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 3417 |===== FreeBSD UFS ....... 2665 |==== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 35873 |==================================================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 18932 |=========================== BlogBench 1.1 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better FreeBSD iX ZoL .... 1378135 |================================================== FreeBSD ZFS ....... 1313846 |================================================ FreeBSD UFS ....... 1255659 |============================================== Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 . 585358 |===================== Ubuntu 18.04 ZoL .. 332905 |============