Loopback Intel Xeon L5520 testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test1: Processor: Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 47GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.9.3-x86_64-linode33 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3 Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Test1 . 69.58 |================================================================