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Final Benchmarks of Clear Linux on Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-of-the-Box(phoronix.com)
22 points by mfiguiere a day ago | 6 comments
  • sroussey4 hours ago

    Doubling PHP performance is huge.

    Ideally Ubuntu would take these optimizations and incorporate them into their stack.

  • rlpba day ago

    > Ubuntu still frustratingly defaults to schedutil or powersave governors even on servers... A rather silly default many will argue

    The carbon footprint of servers sitting idle is important, too.

    • rbanffya day ago |parent

      Servers sitting idle is a strange concept. Ideally those resources should be powered down and workloads should be consolidated until the machines reach an optimal level of utilization.

      • ChocolateGoda day ago |parent

        If you want readily available resources, you can't power down servers when they're not being utilized.

        That's not to say you shouldn't make attempts to conserve power with better performance scheduling on the CPU.

        • rbanffy8 hours ago |parent

          > you can't power down servers when they're not being utilized.

          You can’t boot a full OS in seconds, but you can boot a thin hypervisor and have compute resources immediately available. Same applies for hard disk drivers that can be spun down or flash devices that can be unpowered when not in need.

      • jackpeterfletcha day ago |parent

        Wouldn’t disagree, but have I got bad news for you.

        Global utilisation rates are very low. 5~15%

        I guess the reality is that solving that would require a practically impossible level of coordination across the industry.

        https://sardinasystemsblog.medium.com/how-can-an-enterprise-...