tio-bench VMware testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. tio-cfq: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 26GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware tio-deadline: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 26GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tio-cfq ...... 1.18 |= tio-cfq ...... 1.90 |= tio-cfq ...... 66.91 |============================================== tio-deadline . 82.57 |========================================================= tio-deadline . 81.36 |======================================================== tio-deadline . 80.06 |======================================================= tio-deadline . 79.82 |=======================================================