i7desktop1 Running pts/compress-pbzip2-1.4.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. compress1: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.06GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 17GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: InnoTek VirtualBox, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: modesetting 0.5.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: VirtualBox parallelCompress: Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.06GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 17GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: InnoTek VirtualBox, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: modesetting 0.5.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: VirtualBox Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress1 ........ 9.58 |====================================================== parallelCompress . 9.51 |======================================================