gzip-test-1 VMware testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test-2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6126 @ 2.60GHz (24 Cores / 48 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 0W23H8 (1.3.7 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MHz 18ASF2G72PDZ-2G6E1, Disk: 239GB PERC H740P Mini + 4 x 78327GB MD34xx + 4 x 19582GB MD34xx, Graphics: Matrox s Matrox G200eW3, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 dm-20: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX (6.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2GB Virtual disk + 322GB Virtual disk + 9GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Test-2 ...................... 42.68 |====================================== Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 dm-20 . 47.79 |==========================================