Server/Workstation Tests: Antergos vs. Clear Linux vs. Fedora vs. Scientific Linux vs. Ubuntu vs. openSUSE

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 10 February 2017 at 11:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 7 Comments.

Starting things off with the basic SQLite embedded database test, Clear Linux with its various compiler optimizations by default and other performance tweaks allowed it to start off with a first place finish ahead of the other distributions tested. Most distributions were performing about the same speed while Scientific Linux 7.3 with its XFS file-system and older kernel had a noticeably slower finish.

When running pgbench to test PostgreSQL on the distributions, the results were much closer, but Clear Linux had failed to build this PostgreSQL configuration for testing.

Fedora 25 was handling PostgreSQL well but it was really a tight race without a clear winner among the distributions running this test.

BLAS is much faster than ATLAS for HPC Challenge. The test wasn't able to run across all the tested distributions due to not all of the dependencies being available.

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