testing stuff VMware testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon X5690: Processor: Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3.46GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600, System Layer: VMware Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 10.17 |===================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 24319 |===================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 70.76 |===================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 97.48 |===================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 14.83 |===================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 49.58 |===================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon X5690 . 742.00 |====================================================