Looking at Hardened

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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hardware 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Vostro 5471 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 08X87Y v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.15.0 date: 07/03/2020 

CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800 
           Speed: 3400 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3400 2: 3401 3: 3400 4: 3401 5: 3400 6: 3401 7: 3400 
           8: 3400 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5917 
           Device-2: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-5:4 chip ID: 0c45:6a06 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           s-dpi: 96

cpufreq >> perormance

Test #1

Kernel: 5.8.4-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits

systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 1.595s (kernel) + 3.374s (userspace) = 4,969s
graphical.target reached after 2.777s in userspace

/usr/bin/mini-benchmarker.sh

======= ========================== ======
====| / |==== MINI BENCHMARKER ====| ___ ))====
====| |/| |======= by torvic9 =======| ___ =====
====||==||========= v1.1 =========|//====

  • stress-ng cpu: 104.77
  • stress-ng memory: 63.17
  • perf sched: 73.019
  • perf memcpy: 11.13
  • calculating 60m digits of pi: 52.56
  • argon2 hashing: 19.42
  • ffmpeg compilation: 167.76
  • xz compression: 207.73
  • Blender render: 640.34

Total time in seconds:

1339.899

Total score (lower is better) [multi = 2.0014]:

148.37

Test #2

Kernel: 5.7.18.a-1-hardened

systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 3.501s (kernel) + 3.554s (userspace) = 7.055s
graphical.target reached after 3.313s in userspace

/usr/bin/mini-benchmarker.sh

======= ========================== ======
====| / |==== MINI BENCHMARKER ====| ___ ))====
====| |/| |======= by torvic9 =======| ___ =====
====||==||========= v1.1 =========|//====

  • stress-ng cpu: 107.02
  • stress-ng memory: 63.59
  • perf sched: 75.106
  • perf memcpy: 6.95
  • calculating 60m digits of pi: 53.27
  • argon2 hashing: 20.23
  • ffmpeg compilation: 170.78
  • xz compression: 216.19
  • Blender render: 645.70

Total time in seconds:

1358.836

Total score (lower is better) [multi = 2.0014]:

148.70

No clear winner as it looks. However linux-zen boots up quite faster than linux-hardened on this machine.

Chill out guys!
meditating-frog

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