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. All network tests were run from the thinkpad laptop
using a ~2 meter shielded CAT6 ethernet cable. 

<table class="gridded">
  <tr>
    <th>Device
    <th>OS
    <th>gzip (sec)
    <th>disk latency (ms)
    <th>cpu test (ms)
    <th>memory throughput
    <th>iperf TCP
    <th>iperf UDP
    <th>ping latency (ms)
    <th>nginx GET
    <th>scp throuput
  <tr>
    <td>Thinkpad x200s
    <td>wheezy amd64 (linux 3.2)
    <td>3.172
    <td>8.6
    <td>1.36
    <td>247.11 MB/sec
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
  <tr>
    <td>Soekris net6501
    <td>pfSense i386 (FreeBSD)
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>146 Mbits/sec
    <td>1.05 Mbits/sec
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
  <tr>
    <td>Soekris net6501
    <td>kFreeBSD jail guest
    <td>23.242
    <td>0.28
    <td>22.44
    <td>28.68 MB/sec
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>0.219 ms
    <td>16.8 MB/s
    <td>
  <tr>
    <td>Soekris net6501
    <td>wheezy i386 (linux 3.2)
    <td>26.146
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>
    <td>808 Mbits/sec
    <td>1.05 Mbits/sec
    <td>~0.202 ms
    <td>
    <td>3.8MB/s
  <tr>
    <td>DreamPlug
    <td>wheezy armv5tel (linux 3.2)
    <td>24.790
    <td>50.323
    <td>73.98
    <td>91.98 MB/sec
    <td>569 Mbits/sec
    <td>
    <td>0.131 ms
    <td>
    <td>6.3MB/s
</table>