An overview of motley benchmarks run against various hardware and operating systems run in August, 2012... see the [benchmarks.txt](benchmarks.txt) file for exact command outputs:
Device OS gzip (sec) disk latency (ms) cpu test (ms) memory throughput iperf TCP iperf UDP ping latency (ms) nginx GET scp throuput
Thinkpad x200s wheezy amd64 (linux 3.2) 3.172 8.6 1.36 247.11 MB/sec
Soekris net6501 pfSense i386 (FreeBSD) 146 Mbits/sec 1.05 Mbits/sec
Soekris net6501 kFreeBSD jail guest 23.242 0.28 22.44 28.68 MB/sec 0.219 ms 16.8 MB/s
Soekris net6501 wheezy i386 (linux 3.2) 26.146 808 Mbits/sec 1.05 Mbits/sec ~0.202 ms 3.8MB/s
DreamPlug wheezy armv5tel (linux 3.2) 24.790 50.323 73.98ms 91.98 MB/sec 569 Mbits/sec 0.131 ms 6.3MB/s