centosadmin Intel Xeon E312xx testing on CentOS 6.4 (Final) via the Phoronix Test Suite. KVM-Debian-EX40: Processor: Intel Xeon E312xx @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 12GB OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 KVM-Centos-EX40: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.1.2 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 12GB OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.1.2 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 3545.75 |==================================================== KVM-Centos-EX40 . 3529.46 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 15987.77 |=================================================== KVM-Centos-EX40 . 16044.84 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 7.19 |======================================================= CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 3292.87 |==================================================== CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 14463.42 |=================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 28720.63 |=================================================== KVM-Centos-EX40 . 28600.10 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 50.15 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 6984.18 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 69.35 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 9018.49 |==================================================== KVM-Centos-EX40 . 8064.50 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 70.17 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Debian-EX40 . 8904.24 |==================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 74.01 |====================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 647.18 |===================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 11.11 |====================================================== FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 13.67 |====================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 117557 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 15796.91 |=================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 16071.66 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better KVM-Centos-EX40 . 5.21 |=======================================================