Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE, Debian, Clear & Antergos Linux Benchmarks On AMD EPYC

CentOS 7 was delivering the best performance running PostgreSQL followed by Fedora Server, with both of those Linux distributions running XFS while openSUSE was having issues running PostgreSQL 9.6.

Clear Linux sprung back to delivering maximum performance when it came to running a Redis server on the nine tested Linux distributions.

That's it for the nine-way Linux distribution this round of our ongoing AMD EPYC Linux benchmarking. All nine tested distributions ran nicely with the AMD EPYC 7601 + Tyan Transport SX TN70A-B8026 with no problems to report. Next I'll be seeing how well EPYC does with the BSDs.

For those curious about the out-of-the-box performance of the different Linux distributions, hopefully you found these results useful. While the out-of-the-box performance is only one metric for companies to consider when deploying a new OS, it's always interesting to see the spectrum of results. Intel's Clear Linux distribution had the most wins in this testing due to their focus on delivering extreme performance through a variety of techniques while in second place was CentOS 7 (EL7) followed by Ubuntu 17.10, as a good sign for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in six months down the road. While CentOS 7 had the second most wins, when it wasn't winning, it was tending to perform poorly with its older compiler/kernel stack showing its age and having the most losses.