FIO Oort 2 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) testing with a QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ceph Normal: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) @ 2.70GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 9GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-55-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ceph Normal . 1197.33 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ceph Normal . 640.64 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ceph Normal . 1218.53 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Ceph Normal . 636.46 |=========================================================