g KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. linode-standard: Processor: 4 x AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 171GB QEMU HDD + QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 1 Microseconds < Lower Is Better linode-standard . 59.28 |====================================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: HTTP - Test: Bandwidth - Threads: 1 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better linode-standard . 503.02 |===================================================== Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Connections/s - Threads: 1 Connections/sec > Higher Is Better linode-standard . 2973 |=======================================================