7box-tiobench VMware testing on Slackware 14.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 32GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Slackware 14.0, Kernel: 3.4.7 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 5218.89 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 7314.41 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 13166.46 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 8802.53 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 83.30 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 71.58 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 59.53 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 88.63 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 6519.95 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 5668.52 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 9946.39 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 10420.54 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 26.70 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 18.26 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 11.61 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 37.37 |=========================================================