benchmark1-disk-suite-2nd KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Westmere E56xx: Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 3.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v15.0.8 (1.10.1-1ubuntu1~cloud0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 81.53 |======================================================= SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 65.69 |======================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 68.98 |======================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 356.73 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 401.71 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 219.57 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 98.68 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 20170503 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 3040.29 |===================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 20170503 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 70.25 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 133.02 |====================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 31.04 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 293.14 |====================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 20.87 |======================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 1158 |======================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Westmere E56xx . 75.99 |======================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Westmere E56xx . 8020.36 |=====================================================