pmbench

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.

Project Site

bitbucket.org

Test Created

18 February 2020

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Memory

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + UUID + Libxml2

Accolades

20k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

* 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 23 November 2024.

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.

Suites Using This Test

Common Kernel Benchmarks

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

pmbench

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

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 513 public results since 18 February 2020 with the latest data as of 19 November 2024.

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

77th

0.0324 ^{+/- 0.0006}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 0.0350

4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2933MT

66th

0.0379 ^{+/- 0.0033}

4 x 16 GB DDR4-2933MT

65th

0.0383 ^{+/- 0.0032}

12 x 32 GB DDR4-2934MT

65th

0.0386 ^{+/- 0.0054}

6 x 4096 MB DDR4-2666MT

65th

0.0398 ^{+/- 0.0014}

Median

50th

0.0501

8 x 16384 MB DDR4-3200MT

15th

0.0608 ^{+/- 0.0033}

Low-Tier

25th

> 0.0533

8 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MT

5th

0.0914 ^{+/- 0.0003}

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.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

c5-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c7i-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c6i-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c5-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c7i-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c6i-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c6i-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c7i-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c5-2xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 35 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c7i-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C - Amazon EC2 c7i.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c5-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL - Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
c6i-12xlarge-amazon-linux-2023 1 System - 47 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.12xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241111 - 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023.x86_64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
6.11.5-arch1-1 + Arch Linux Tests 1 System - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.11.5-arch1-1 - GCC 14.2.1 20240910
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Performance 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.11.5-arch1-1 - GCC 14.2.1 20240910
Arch Linux Performance 1 System - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.11.5-arch1-1 - GCC 14.2.1 20240910

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	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.8.0-25-generic - Xfce
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
nosystemd-showdown 21 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ - Dell 0WY383 - AMD RS480 Slackware 14.2 x86_64 - 5.4.65 - Xfce 4.12
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
benchmark-m5 3 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon - Google Compute Engine c2-standard-16 - 64GB Debian 10 - 4.19.0-13-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
AWS vs GCP 5 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7B12 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-16 - 64GB Debian 10 - 4.19.0-13-cloud-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
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
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 - 5.6.0-050600-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
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 - 5.12.4-157-tkg-pds - KDE Plasma 5.21.4
CPU comparison 3 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
nosystemd-showdown 13 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ - Dell 0WY383 - AMD RS480 Alpine Linux v3.12 3.12.1 - 5.4.72-0-lts - 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 - 5.3.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
benchmark-m5 5 Systems - 106 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon - Google Compute Engine c2-standard-16 - 64GB Debian 10 - 4.19.0-13-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

pmbench

Project Site

Test Created

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

pmbench

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

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

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