Unpacking The Linux Kernel Benchmark

This test measures how long it takes to extract the .tar.xz Linux kernel source tree package.

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

* 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 29 November 2023.

Revision History

pts/unpack-linux-1.2.0 [View Source] Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:54:25 GMT
Update against Linux 5.19 package.

pts/unpack-linux-1.1.1 [View Source] Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:15:46 GMT
Initial Windows support

pts/unpack-linux-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:16:44 GMT
Update against linux 4.15, use .tar.xz.

pts/unpack-linux-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:26:58 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Performance Metrics

Unpacking The Linux Kernel 5.19

linux-5.19.tar.xz

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 439 public results since 21 August 2022 with the latest data as of 22 November 2023.

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

Seconds (Average)

2000GB KINGSTON SFYRD2000G

95th

3.9

2000GB Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB

92nd

4.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus

82nd

4.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

2000GB Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB

77th

5.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 5.4

1000GB Western Digital WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0

72nd

5.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

2000GB Corsair Force MP600

69th

5.5

2000GB Western Digital WDS200T1X0E-00AFY0

68th

5.5

512GB SAMSUNG MZVLQ512HBLU-00B00

62nd

5.9

512GB Micron MTFDKBA512TFK

61st

5.9

1024GB Micron_3400_MTFDKBA1T0TFH

61st

6.0

1024GB SK hynix PC711 HFS001TDE9X073N

58th

6.1

Micron 2300 NVMe

55th

6.6

250GB Western Digital WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0

53rd

6.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Kioxia KBG40ZNS256G NVMe

52nd

6.7

Samsung SSD 980 PRO

52nd

6.7 ^{+/- 0.6}

500GB Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP500GM30002

51st

6.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Median

50th

6.8

251GB APPLE SSD AP0256Z

50th

6.9

3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP

49th

6.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN750 SE

48th

7.0

1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB

46th

7.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

128GB Toshiba THNSN5128GPU7

45th

7.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

251GB APPLE SSD AP0256Q

44th

7.2

Samsung SSD 970 PRO

42nd

7.5

Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus

42nd

7.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

Samsung SSD 970 EVO

41st

7.7 ^{+/- 0.8}

256GB SK hynix HFM256GDHTNI-87A0B

36th

8.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

SK hynix PC401 NVMe

34th

8.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Toshiba KBG40ZPZ512G NVMe

33rd

8.3

256GB TS256GMTS800

31st

8.6

500GB Samsung SSD 860

31st

8.6

7682GB INTEL SSDPF2KX076TZ

30th

8.7 ^{+/- 0.7}

PNY CS3030 500GB SSD

29th

9.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA

27th

9.4 ^{+/- 1.3}

256GB TOSHIBA RD400

27th

9.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Low-Tier

25th

> 9.8

240GB Corsair Force MP500

24th

10.4

256GB PCIe SSD

20th

10.4

500GB HGST HTS725050A7

16th

11.0 ^{+/- 0.9}

128GB BIWIN SSD

14th

11.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x 52GB P33AF3T8

11th

12.3 ^{+/- 0.5}

128GB SAMSUNG SSD PM80

11th

12.6 ^{+/- 0.6}

6000GB PERC H750 Adp

10th

13.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX

7th

18.2

128GB SF128

3rd

34.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Unpacking The Linux Kernel 5.19 - linux-5.19.tar.xz) has an average run-time of 2 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 4 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 0.7%.

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)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, Apple M1, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 8-Core

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 Benchmarks 1 System - 7 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core - Gigabyte A620I AX - 2 x 16384 MB 6000MHz KD5AGUA80-60A300H Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.2428 - 545.84
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB + Gigabyte A620I AX (F3 BIOS) 1 System - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core - Gigabyte A620I AX - 2 x 16384 MB 6000MHz KD5AGUA80-60A300H Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.2428 - 545.84
resultunpack 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 3500U - HP 85EA v51.27 - AMD Raven Debian 11 - 5.10.0-26-amd64 - KDE Plasma 5.20.5
atomicrulez_ubuntu_2310_unpack-linux 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i9-10850K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII APEX - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-7-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
unpacklinuxr1 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 5 5560U - AZW SER - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-33-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
unpacklinux-orangepi5plus 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Orange Pi 5 Plus - 16GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.160-rockchip - GNOME Shell 42.9
Intel Core i5-12600K Performance 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASRock B760M Pro RS - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.1.38-Unraid - GCC 9.4.0
freebsd13.1-Solidigm-nvmes-4TB-II 1 System - 103 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core - Supermicro AS-2124BT-HNTR 0123456789 - AMD [AMD] Starship FreeBSD - 13.1-RELEASE - Clang 13.0.0
freebsd13.1-Solidigm-nvmes-4TB 1 System - 104 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core - Supermicro AS-2124BT-HNTR 0123456789 - AMD [AMD] Starship FreeBSD - 13.1-RELEASE - Clang 13.0.0
512sectors-unpack-linux 2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i5-1340P - Framework FRANMCCP04 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GNOME Shell 43.6
512sectors-unpack-linux 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i5-1340P - Framework FRANMCCP04 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GNOME Shell 43.6
hdw-nas4free-9101-nfs-standalone 2 Systems - 19 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-NT v1.02 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.38-x64v3-xanmod1 - X Server 1.21.1.7
2023-07-21-0908 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4208 - Dell 06WXJT - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.1
2023-07-21-0027 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4208 - Dell 06WXJT - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.1
2023-07-20-1805 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x < Sec-V Krnl Protect > - Dell 06WXJT - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.1

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Unpacking The Linux Kernel 5.19

linux-5.19.tar.xz

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