The Performance Impact From Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 25 January 2023 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 4 of 8. 51 Comments.

Timed FFmpeg Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Timed LLVM Compilation benchmark with settings of Build System: Ninja. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Timed MPlayer Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

When it came to compile-time performance, consistently leading to the longest build times was using the Arch Linux hardened kernel with the extra kernel work there in the name of security slowing down the build times of software. There wasn't much variation out of the other four Linux kernel options on Arch Linux.

SQLite Speedtest benchmark with settings of Timed Time, Size 1,000. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

The SQLite speed benchmark also showed much slower embedded database performance when running on Arch Linux's hardened kernel.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Boat, Acceleration: CPU-only. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Masskrug, Acceleration: CPU-only. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Server Room, Acceleration: CPU-only. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: resize. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: rotate. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: auto-levels. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: unsharp-mask. 6.1.7-arch1-1 was the fastest.

The hardened kernel was performing the worst with GIMP and Darktable photography/imaging software too. The stable kernel and Zen kernel options tended to perform the best for these creator software packages.

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