proxmox-compression
lxc testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


lxd: 

	Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 @ 3.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS (1205 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 + H270, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS, Graphics: Intel HD 530 (1150MHz), Monitor: PLG2488H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.15-1-pve (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: lxc


7-Zip Compression 16.02
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
lxd . 9629 |===================================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
lxd . 22.82 |==================================================================


Gzip Compression
Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz
Seconds < Lower Is Better
lxd . 64.89 |==================================================================


XZ Compression 5.2.4
Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9
Seconds < Lower Is Better
lxd . 135.60 |=================================================================


Zstd Compression 1.3.4
Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19
Seconds < Lower Is Better
lxd . 73.46 |==================================================================