zfs Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor testing on Debian 7.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2GB larc: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 2GB larc 512MB ZIL: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 2GB larc ........... 314.54 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 297.01 |=============================================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better 2GB larc ........... 36.28 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 36.71 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 821.96 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 588.54 |==================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 157.46 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 76.35 |======================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 716.73 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 573.48 |======================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 194.36 |================================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 102.22 |========================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 1190.86 |================================================= 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 1166.36 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ........... 12596.00 |================================================ 2GB larc 512MB ZIL . 12568.11 |================================================