YMMR-cent64 VMware testing on CentOS 6.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 16384 MB DRAM: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 215GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Driver: vmware 12.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 16384 MB DRAM . 16545.78 |==================================================== 16384 MB DRAM . 16751.14 |===================================================== 16384 MB DRAM . 16772.97 |===================================================== 16384 MB DRAM . 16807.38 |=====================================================