Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 30 November 2023 at 10:30 AM EST. Page 4 of 5. 8 Comments.
libavif avifenc benchmark with settings of Encoder Speed: 0. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
libavif avifenc benchmark with settings of Encoder Speed: 2. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Timed Gem5 Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Helsing benchmark with settings of Digit Range: 14 digit. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, First Run / Cold Cache. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.

So if you are currently using Ampere Altra (Max) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, these numbers should excite you for looking ahead to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or if you don't mind running Ubuntu 23.10 with the narrower window of service and support.

Redis benchmark with settings of Test: GET, Parallel Connections: 500. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Redis benchmark with settings of Test: SET, Parallel Connections: 500. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.

The Linux 6.7 kernel was helping the performance in some benchmarks as another nice preview of what to look forward to with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: NUMA. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Poll. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Futex. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: SENDFILE. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: CPU Stress. Ubuntu 23.10 was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Vector Math. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Mixed Scheduler. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: Socket Activity. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.
Stress-NG benchmark with settings of Test: System V Message Passing. Ubuntu 23.10 + Linux 6.7 Git was the fastest.

A number of wins were recorded for Ubuntu 23.10 in the Stress-NG kernel micro-benchmarks.


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