CentOS 6 / 7 / 8 Benchmarks CentOS benchmarks by Michael Larabel CentOS 6: Default Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 6: No Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 7: Default Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.4 (LLVM 7.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 7: No Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.4 (LLVM 7.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 8: Default Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.1 (LLVM 7.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180905, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CentOS 8: No Mitigations: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.1 (LLVM 7.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20180905, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 1 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 32.62 |======================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 30.87 |===================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 33.33 |======================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 32.88 |======================================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 31.80 |====================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 31.26 |====================================== SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 8 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 208.58 |======================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 198.79 |===================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 51.16 |========== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 46.76 |========= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 42.18 |======== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 41.11 |======== t-test1 2017-01-13 Threads: 1 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 27.41 |===================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 20.17 |============================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 29.28 |======================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 19.23 |========================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 21.90 |============================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 18.47 |========================= t-test1 2017-01-13 Threads: 2 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 10.164 |======================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 8.444 |================================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 8.694 |================================= CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 7.261 |============================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 8.391 |================================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 7.268 |============================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 93.30 |======================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 94.26 |======================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 38.12 |================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 37.78 |================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 13.15 |====== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 13.16 |====== Perl Benchmarks Test: Pod2html Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 0.14904928 |=================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 0.14466523 |================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 0.13812415 |================================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 0.13623310 |================================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 0.11761279 |============================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 0.11590050 |=========================== Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 0.00458375 |=================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 0.00316489 |======================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 0.00340880 |========================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 0.00232924 |================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 0.00195356 |=============== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 0.00178347 |============== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 437306.85 |======================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 501589.94 |=========================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 570004.64 |============================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 615985.08 |================================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 605699.93 |================================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 673054.81 |==================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 445191.84 |======================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 449479.97 |======================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 564205.05 |============================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 598649.11 |================================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 623268.45 |================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 667703.72 |==================================== SQLite Speedtest 3.30 Timed Time - Size 1,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 99.14 |======================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 77.98 |=============================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 85.92 |=================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 72.81 |============================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 74.86 |============================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 64.06 |========================== Redis 5.0.5 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 1514401.33 |============================ CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 1467173.42 |=========================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 1522261.00 |============================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 1620081.92 |============================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 1845056.17 |================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 1912843.26 |=================================== Redis 5.0.5 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 1126993.67 |========================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 1180660.54 |========================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 1248369.89 |============================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 1309591.25 |============================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 1423169.79 |================================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 1561769.00 |=================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 16572.79 |=========================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 22771.29 |===================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 15950.13 |========================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 19849.72 |================================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 15693.43 |========================= CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 20959.08 |================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 154056 |========== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 155076 |========== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 201029 |============== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 200492 |============== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 577882 |======================================= CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 577175 |======================================= Sockperf 3.4 Test: Throughput Messages Per Second > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 277549 |======================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 468398 |======================================= CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 227348 |=================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 305188 |========================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 226074 |=================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 323518 |=========================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Ping Pong usec < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 19.862 |======================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 14.424 |============================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 12.055 |======================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 11.914 |======================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 7.288 |============== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 5.397 |=========== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Under Load usec < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 10.06 |========= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 12.74 |============ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 43.16 |======================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 38.06 |=================================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 30.96 |============================= CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 29.02 |=========================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 1 Microseconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 64.22 |======================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 51.14 |================================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 32.95 |===================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 32.81 |==================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 26.31 |================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 20.42 |============= Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: HTTP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 1 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 352.13 |=============== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 403.32 |================= CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 366.07 |=============== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 401.50 |================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 817.32 |================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 936.18 |======================================= Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Connections/s - Threads: 1 Connections/sec > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 3791 |======================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 4534 |============================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 2240 |============== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 2583 |================ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 5251 |================================ CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 6679 |========================================= Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 2108462 |============================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 2049495 |============================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 2461620 |==================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 2361323 |================================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 2558891 |===================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 2631555 |====================================== Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 29074678875 |================================ CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 28867366507 |================================ CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 30987679115 |================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 30154505915 |================================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 24204987769 |=========================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 23976571610 |========================== Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 1017992 |==================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 999250 |=================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 1077097 |====================================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 1066296 |====================================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 860292 |============================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 863773 |============================== Java SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 2089.84 |=================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 2141.35 |==================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 1916.57 |================================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 1986.00 |================================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 2121.50 |==================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 2244.64 |====================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 1154.27 |================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 1155.03 |================================= CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 1070.01 |============================== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 1045.35 |============================== CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 1096.71 |=============================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 1344.75 |====================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 5063.74 |=================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 5111.74 |=================================== CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 4169.76 |============================= CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 4775.99 |================================= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 5162.00 |==================================== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 5475.62 |====================================== Hackbench Count: 2 - Type: Thread Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 11.867 |======================================= CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 10.016 |================================= CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 3.031 |========== CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 2.620 |========= CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 3.244 |=========== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 2.424 |======== Hackbench Count: 2 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 6: Default Mitigations . 8.273 |======================================== CentOS 6: No Mitigations ...... 6.761 |================================= CentOS 7: Default Mitigations . 3.206 |================ CentOS 7: No Mitigations ...... 2.504 |============ CentOS 8: Default Mitigations . 3.003 |=============== CentOS 8: No Mitigations ...... 2.128 |==========