The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance. The Linux distributions tested on this AmpereOne A192-32X server included Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 daily, Fedora Server 40, AlmaLinux 9.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Testing, and CentOS Stream 10.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-os-ampereone

[bug77]

The test suite isn't exactly server-oriented, but it's still funny to see the only server distro in the pack finishing second to last.

[0badc0de]

No Arch on Aarch?

[FluxTape]

Would be interesting to know why Fedora is so much slower than CentOS Stream

[schmidtbag]

Interesting how many distros alternate between top 3 to bottom 3, sometimes by a significant margin. Seems there's a lot of optimization to do.

No Arch on Aarch?

ALARM can be a a bit tricky to set up. I don't think there's any pre-made images for Ampere and perhaps the generic image isn't so easy to install, so I don't blame Michael for not bothering.

[0badc0de]

Interesting how many distros alternate between top 3 to bottom 3, sometimes by a significant margin. Seems there's a lot of optimization to do.


ALARM can be a a bit tricky to set up. I don't think there's any pre-made images for Ampere and perhaps the generic image isn't so easy to install, so I don't blame Michael for not bothering.

https://archlinuxarm.org/

[luno]

Would be interesting to know why Fedora is so much slower than CentOS Stream

It is Server OS, they can optimise lot of stuffs by dropping support for old hardwares, Fedora can't

[sophisticles]

I wonder how difficult it would be to install Win 11 ARM on this:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/ampere-altra-max-windows-gpus-and-gaming

https://github.com/AmpereComputing/Windows-11-On-Ampere

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

The test suite isn't exactly server-oriented, but it's still funny to see the only server distro in the pack finishing second to last.

CentOS Stream 10 in first place is definitely a server focused OS.

[bug77]

Interesting how many distros alternate between top 3 to bottom 3, sometimes by a significant margin. Seems there's a lot of optimization to do.

Servers are tailored towards some types of workloads, Michael's suite has a lot of tests that more reflective of desktop or workstation usage.