FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 November 2023 at 08:58 AM EST. Page 5 of 5. 12 Comments.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Hash. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Pipe. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Poll. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Zlib. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: MEMFD. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Mutex. FreeBSD 13.2 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Malloc. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Pthread. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Semaphores. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: AVX-512 VNNI. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Socket Activity. FreeBSD 13.2 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Memory Copying. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Context Switching. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Vector Floating Point. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

A number of the Stress-NG kernel micro-benchmarks were also showing nice improvements on FreeBSD 14.0 compared to FreeBSD 13.2.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, FreeBSD 14.0 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC. FreeBSD 14.0 was the fastest.

Across the span of five dozen benchmarks carried out on this AMD EPYC 8534P server of FreeBSD 13.2 vs. FreeBSD 14.0, the newly-released FreeBSD 14 was on average 18% faster than its predecessor. Not bad for a simple OS upgrade. I've been seeing very healthy gains on other x86_64 servers tested so far while due to hardware availability haven't yet tried any AArch64 servers. I'll be running more FreeBSD 14.0 server benchmarks shortly along with following that up by looking at the FreeBSD 14.0 performance against the latest leading Linux distributions. In any event I'm quite happy thus far with the performance and experience in my FreeBSD 14.0 testing.

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