diskhost Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx testing with a Bochs and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. diskio: Processor: Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx @ 2.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better diskio . 1228639 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 72.39 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 4003.05 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 4033.44 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 33.72 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 34.50 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 4353.85 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 33.97 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 8049.91 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 32.01 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 5417.58 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 1.19 |================================================================