eightcorelinuxcachebench Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. all cores up cache bench no VMs: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: AMI Aptio CRB, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12, Network: Intel DH8900CC Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4 CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better all cores up cache bench no VMs . 1689.98 |==================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better all cores up cache bench no VMs . 5074.57 |==================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better all cores up cache bench no VMs . 15020.37 |===================================