ptscompress Intel Core i7 9xx testing with a Red Hat RHEV Hypervisor and Red Hat Device 0100 on RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ptscompress: Processor: Intel Core i7 9xx @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat RHEV Hypervisor, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 5GB, Graphics: Red Hat Device 0100, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ptscompress . 5358 |=========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ptscompress . 26.55 |========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ptscompress . 18.08 |========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ptscompress . 159.71 |=========================================================