thuban-6-core-1vm VMware testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Phenom II X6 1090T: Processor: 6 x AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.21GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better AMD Phenom II X6 1090T . 13203 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Phenom II X6 1090T . 10.13 |=============================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Phenom II X6 1090T . 20.83 |=============================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Phenom II X6 1090T . 161.08 |==============================================