An Early Look At Linux 6.18 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 16 October 2025 at 10:40 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 3 Comments.

Where the Linux 6.18 performance became more exciting was with the Memcached in-memory database. Linux 6.18 does sport a number of memory management improvements likely helping out here for some performance uplift compared to Linux 6.17.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Write. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Only. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Only, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 100, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Only, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Write. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 800, Mode: Read Write, Average Latency. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

👁 PostgreSQL benchmark with settings of Scaling Factor: 1000, Clients: 1000, Mode: Read Write. Linux 6.18 Git was the fastest.

There were also some small performance improvements to find out of PostgreSQL when running Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids with the Linux 6.18 development kernel.

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