OS Battle KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8: Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 69GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: EFI VGA, Audio: Intel 82801I, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.3.8 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600, System Layer: KVM 18.04 5.3.8-hydro: Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 69GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: EFI VGA, Audio: Intel 82801I, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.3.8-hydro (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600, System Layer: KVM Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.2.7 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 178.24 |================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 178.72 |================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 13.84 |=================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 13.88 |=================================================== GNU GMP GMPbench 6.1.2 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 4833.70 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 4831.00 |================================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 12289.13 |================================================ 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 12046.73 |=============================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 34474100.10 |============================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 34407465.70 |============================================= SciMark 2.0 Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 577.95 |================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 578.39 |================================================== Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 7318696 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 7295337 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 1255775 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 1256343 |================================================= Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 154.54 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 158.93 |================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 5639420 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 5580680 |================================================ asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 5904358 |================================================= 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 5676423 |=============================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 44.47 |=================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 44.60 |=================================================== Minion 1.8 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 70.31 |=================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 70.80 |=================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 18.04 Kernel 5.3.8 . 11.16 |================================================== 18.04 5.3.8-hydro .. 11.31 |===================================================