vm-baseline 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) testing with a OpenStack Foundation Nova v2014.1.3 and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7 9xx: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.27GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v2014.1.3, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-29-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 7144.21 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 24.01 |==================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 2148 |===================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 19.39 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 187.66 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 76.53 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 128.15 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 2.28 |===================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 696.29 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 88.78 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 74.66 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 23.54 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 222.93 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 183.08 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 93.47 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 21.13 |==================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 598.61 |=================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7 9xx . 288.91 |===================================================