VirtIO Testing Disk DigitalOcean Cloud Ubuntu Linux 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 VirtIO Disabled: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 86GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 extreme: Processor: AMD Opteron 6282 SE @ 2.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 11GB Virtual disk OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 216.32 |===================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 201.70 |================================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 69.79 |====================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 62.32 |================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 2119 |=================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 2266 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 432.38 |===================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 385.92 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 101.69 |===================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 98.87 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 169.88 |===================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 170.91 |===================================================== 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 |=============================== VirtIO Disabled . 3.82 |===== extreme ......... 38.52 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 41.60 |=================================== VirtIO Disabled . 63.70 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 61.42 |==================================================== VirtIO Disabled . 63.70 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better VirtIO Enabled .. 70.94 |======= VirtIO Disabled . 522.87 |===================================================== extreme ......... 4.92 |