compress-infosrv VMware testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. comproe333: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192 MB + 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 275GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-101-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better comproe333 . 10669 |=========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comproe333 . 15.92 |=========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comproe333 . 26.08 |=========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better comproe333 . 585.38 |==========================================================