Linode 4096 qemu testing on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. mostly idle: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 103GB QEMU HDD + QEMU HDD, Graphics: Device 1234:1111, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: qemu Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better mostly idle . 271.44 |=========================================================