pmbench Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org

Pmbench is a Linux paging and virtual memory benchmark. This test profile will report the average page latency of the system.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark pmbench.

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 21 January 2025.

Revision History

pts/pmbench-1.0.2 [View Source] Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:13:16 GMT
Add libxml2 dependency.

pts/pmbench-1.0.1 [View Source] Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:56:18 GMT
Add UUID as external dependency.

pts/pmbench-1.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:54:09 GMT
Initial commit of pmbench Linux paging / virtual memory benchmark.

Performance Metrics

pmbench

Concurrent Worker Threads: 1 - Read-Write Ratio: 100% Writes

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 530 public results since 18 February 2020 with the latest data as of 20 January 2025.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

us - Average Page Latency (Average)

12 x 16384 MB DDR4-2934MT

78th

0.0324 ^{+/- 0.0006}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 0.0350

4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2933MT

67th

0.0379 ^{+/- 0.0033}

4 x 16 GB DDR4-2933MT

67th

0.0383 ^{+/- 0.0032}

12 x 32 GB DDR4-2934MT

67th

0.0386 ^{+/- 0.0054}

6 x 4096 MB DDR4-2666MT

66th

0.0398 ^{+/- 0.0014}

8 x 64 GB DDR4-3200MT

55th

0.0490 ^{+/- 0.0002}

Median

50th

0.0501

8 x 16384 MB DDR4-3200MT

15th

0.0608 ^{+/- 0.0033}

Low-Tier

25th

> 0.0538

8 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MT

5th

0.0914 ^{+/- 0.0003}

8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400MT

3rd

0.0947 ^{+/- 0.0002}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (pmbench - Concurrent Worker Threads: 1 - Read-Write Ratio: 100% Writes) has an average run-time of 4 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.3%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

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Last automated analysis: 18 January 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libuuid.so.1, libxml2.so.2, libc.so.6, libicuuc.so.67, libz.so.1, liblzma.so.5, libicudata.so.67.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

ituietst308-ol88-20250102-2025Jan16 1 System - 277 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst308-ol88-uek6-20230712-2025Jan08 1 System - 285 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.8 - 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst310-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan08 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst310-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan08 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results
ituietst310-ol94-20241003-2025Jan07 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.4 - 5.15.0-300.163.18.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20231218
ituietst310-ol94-20241003-2025Jan07 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results
ituietst308-ol810-uek6-20250102-2025Jan05 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 5.4.17-2136.338.4.2.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst310-ol95-uek-20250102-2025Jan05 1 System - 335 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst321-ol95uek-20250102-2025Jan04 1 System - 356 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Cisco UCSB-B200-M5 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el9uek.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
ituietst324-ol810-20250102-2025Jan04 1 System - 351 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Cisco UCSB-B200-M5 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers OracleServer 8.10 - 5.15.0-303.171.5.2.1.el8uek.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst309-ol810-20250102-2025Jan3 1 System - 341 Benchmark Results	4 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX OracleServer 8.10 - 4.18.0-553.33.1.el8_10.x86_64 - GCC 10.3.1 20210422
ituietst312-ol95-20250102-2025Jan3 1 System - 348 Benchmark Results	8 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Oracle Linux Server 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
qfel-memory 4 Systems - 7 Benchmark Results	AMD A8-5500 APU - ASUS A55BM-A/USB3 - AMD 15h Pop 22.04 - 6.9.3-76060903-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
qfel-memory Featured Memory Comparison	3584MB - 8GB
qfel-memory 2 Systems - 7 Benchmark Results	AMD A8-5500 APU - ASUS A55BM-A/USB3 - AMD 15h Pop 22.04 - 6.9.3-76060903-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9

Core i9 9900KS Intel Linux LKRG Testing 2 Systems - 90 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-9900KS - ASUS PRIME Z390-A - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-14-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.3
CPU comparison 5 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-9400F - ASUS PRIME Z390-P - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-56-generic - Xfce 4.14
benchmark-m5 2 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M - Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Debian 10 - 4.19.0-14-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
AWS vs GCP 5 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M - Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Debian 10 - 4.19.0-14-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
nosystemd-showdown 21 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ - Dell 0WY383 - AMD RS480 Obarun Linux - 5.9.10-arch1-1 - X Server 1.20.9
benchmark-m5 3 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M - Amazon EC2 m5.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Debian 10 - 4.19.0-14-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
Ryzen 3 3300X Linux 5.9 Kernel Test Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core - MSI B350M GAMING PRO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc4daily20200911-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
EPYC 7F72 Kernel Testing 3 Systems - 259 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-rc4-pts-patch - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Kernel LLVM 6 Systems - 146 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X4 965 - MSI 890FXA-GD70 - AMD RD890 PCI-e GFX Hydra part ManjaroLinux 21.0.4 - 5.12.2-154-tkg-pds - KDE Plasma 5.21.4
CPU comparison 3 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6-Core - Gigabyte B450M DS3H-CF - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-56-generic - Xfce 4.14
Core i9 10980XE Kernel Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
nosystemd-showdown 13 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ - Dell 0WY383 - AMD RS480 PCLinuxOS 2020 - 5.7.14-pclos1 - Xfce 4.14
Ryzen 7 1700 AMD Linux 2 Systems - 401 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core - MSI B350 TOMAHAWK - AMD 17h Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-13-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.0
benchmark-m5 5 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Debian 10 - 4.19.0-14-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
/tmp/test1.test 1 System - 24 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon X5690 - ASUS Z8NR-D12 - Intel 5500 I Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-8-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516

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