Ubuntu 12.04 To Ubuntu 18.04 Benchmarks On An Intel Laptop

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 30 April 2018 at 10:39 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 11 Comments.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests

The Hackbench kernel scheduler benchmark is showing the slowest performance on Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests

This system is taking longer to boot on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with its new GNOME Shell desktop than under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity. Results pre-16.04 aren't available with this test profile relying upon systemd for boot time metrics.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests

The Redis performance appears to be much better with 18.04 over past LTS releases.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS To 12.04 Intel Linux Laptop Tests

The Stress-NG synthetic kernel benchmarks were rather mixed. A number of them are slower on the latest Ubuntu releases due to the overhead of KPTI/Retpolines.


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