Gentoo benchmark vs other Distros

korilius · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2013 Posts: 20

Didn't see anything right off in searching for this, so here's a question:

Has anyone did any benchmark comparison with their Gentoo builds vs other distros? I'm curious has to what / how much gains were made speedwise and stabilitywise. Curious to see some results! Once I get a dedicated machine, I'm going to attempt this as well.
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schorsch_76 · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 452

Benchmarks always depend on the task to complete. I did some time some test in an other forum wirth "-march=native" Here is the result

Linpack Benchmark on i7 (Sandy Bridge) with -O3

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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:18 pm Post subject:

I recall reading a couple of articles in Linux Magazine a few years ago, but they were not comparing apples with apples:

Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked, October 28, 2009

Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked – Part 2, March 1, 2010
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HerrSchafer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 May 2011 Posts: 139

I'm always concerned at boot time too: I give a proud smile when a windows user says how fast my pc boots...
We could start a specific thread about benchmarks with results, tips and how we've learned from our mistakes.
I don´t remember where I saw a simple test of 5000 digits PI calculate, but I'll edit this post when I find it.

HardInfo does many tests and upload results in an "online chart of speed champions" LOL...
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chithanh · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:23 pm Post subject:

Another even older test can be found here, using BIND + queryperf:
http://ftp.isc.org/isc/dns_perf/ISC-TN-2008-1.html#results

ak47gen · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 43

As a benchmark I don't think you get a lot more speed then other distros, you just get a lot more customization. For benchmarks on the Linux side I would start with Phoronix. On their other site openbenchmarking.org some people did comparisons already of gentoo VS other Distros. As for boot speed you can get a lot more with gentoo strictly because you build the OS from ground up allowing you to strip anything you don't need. I made a video 5 years ago with 11 second boot time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozA2ie10A6w

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:36 pm Post subject:

No thread on benchmarking Gentoo would be complete without that link.
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shazeal · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:57 pm Post subject:

Best page ever! :lol:

I never understood the obsession with boot times. I mean who sits at their keyboard "OMG OMG OMG FASTER DAMN IT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE IF YOU DONT BOOT NOW! OMG DHCP! DIEEEE"

Uptime is the only time I care about

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My dedicated MythTV fronend machine under the TV is an appliance, so it needs fast turn-on.

So I don't shut it down, I suspend it. The power button on the remote triggers a suspend script, and the system is set for wake-on-USB.

If you're really concerned about fast boot times, (and if you're plugged into the AC) don't shutdown and boot, suspend and wake.
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Hypnos · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:36 am Post subject:

My favorite benchmark is how often I curse an operating systems for its rank stupidity.
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aCOSwt · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:39 am Post subject:

My favourite one is how often I agree with Hypnos.
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Hypnos · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:44 pm Post subject:

gerard27 · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:23 pm Post subject:

Before we had internet I bought cd's with suse,redhat,mandrake etc.
I don't remember how I discovered Gentoo 10 years ago.
I never used another distro since.
I recently bought a new Epson printer because my 6 years old RX560 started to have problems.
Linux support is bad compared to what it once was.
I ended up d/ling a src rpm which made it possible to install.
It still doesn't work well with gutenprint,can't print photo's borderless.
So on a spare partition I installed openSuse and d/led and installed the rpm driver.
Same problem.

What I noticed though was how slow KDE is compared to Gentoo.
Gerard.
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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3522

Before we had broadband I bought cds from Cheapbytes, starting with RedHat 4.1, and kept buying them for several years. Sometimes I bought several revisions of a release, notably RedHat 5.0, in order to get slipstreamed fixes.

Then when RedHat 8 came out and it wasn't RedHat 8.0, I got this unsettled feeling in the pit of my stomach, and started distro-shopping. At first I was thinking in terms of servicability and searched in that mode. Then I remembered that "This is a hobby, it's supposed to be FUN!" and went looking for one of the geekiest distributions I could find.

I started with Gentoo right at the cusp between 1.2 and 1.4, and have been with it ever since. I've installed Ubuntu and Mint for my kids, so they could function independently of me, and I run RedHat Enterprise at work, but I've run straight Gentoo at home.

Until now.

This whole "forced march to systemd" thing has me thinking about Slackware. I have to install another server imminently, but I think I'm going to put Gentoo on it. There is some hurry to this, and there is less of my time involved with a Gentoo install, whereas Slackware would be a big learning experience.

And perhaps systemd won't be forced down our throats, and I can stick with Gentoo.

Or perhaps someone who understands "The Unix Way" will reimplement systemd, correctly.
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