VirtIO Testing Disk DigitalOcean Cloud
VirtIO Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Some testing of the DigitalOcean cloud with ubuntu 13.10 64-bit with quad-core CPU instance and 8GB RAM and 80GB SSD storage.


VirtIO Enabled: 

	Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 79GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0


Flexible IO Tester 1.57
Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern
Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 70.94 |=======================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 61.42 |=======================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 41.60 |=======================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 21.87 |=======================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 169.88 |======================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 101.69 |======================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 432.38 |======================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 2119 |========================================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 69.79 |=======================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
VirtIO Enabled . 216.32 |======================================================