h KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. digitalocean-cpu-optimised: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 (4 Cores), Motherboard: DigitalOcean Droplet v20171212, Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 50GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, 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: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM SQLite 3.30.1 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 18.07 |=========================================== digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 17.35 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 15844.21 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 30609.78 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 2983.60 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 3821.10 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 2210.38 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 10322.35 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 518.40 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Single Thread - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 890.43 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 18516.42 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 31353.77 |======================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 3514.45 |========================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 3820.40 |=========================================