96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXV – Evolucix
It must have been almost a month since I was contacted to by Alvish to do a review for Evolucix. So why was the delay? Well, as some of you may know, I really have quite a few reviews lining up at the moment, but more importantly, their low end VPS have been out of stock for a while. Therefore, when I finally saw they have restocked, I took the first opportunity possible and grabbed one myself.
General Information and Set Up
Many providers start their budget lines of VPS with 128MB VPS, but the lowest plan with Evolucix has 256MB of RAM and at 5.95USD per month, it has the following specifications:
Note that TUN/TAP is not enabled by default but you can raise a support ticket to request for it. The VPS uses OpenVZ virtualization technology.
Sign up was via secured HTTP site and set up was instant (new VPS information and the paypal receipt literally came within the same minute). Password is in plan-text in the welcome email.
Once you logged into the WHMCS system via the secure HTTP website, the detailed VPS information is displayed under my service. The information is rather complete with the disk space, memory and bandwidth bars and graphs available:
However, the control options in the WHMCS does not seem to work and no matter which button I have clicked, here is what shows in their pop-up window, which is their home page:
The SolusVM control panel is on the non-standard HTTP port and once logged in using the user name and password assigned, a pretty standard SolusVM interface is shown:
Instant rDNS is not available, and the two backup options in the SolusVM control panel do not work as well.
Evolucix does not have many OS templates available, however it includes perhaps most of the OS distributions that majority of Linux users would like to use, including CentOS, Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.10. Unfortunately, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was not included, which is one of my most favourite Ubuntu distribution.
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the test VPS that I have received has 256MB of guaranteed RAM, 10 GB of disk space and 200GB of bandwidth, the VPS is from TailorMadeServers, which is colocating in Colo4Dallas in Dallas, Texas.
With just the Debian 32 bit OS template installed, 16MB of RAM was used:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512 16 495 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 16 495
Swap: 0 0 0
And slightly more than 400MB of hard drive is used, which is pretty standard for the Debian OS template:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 413M 9.6G 5% / tmpfs 256M 0 256M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 256M 0 256M 0% /dev/shmS
Top shows the corresponding processes running:
top - 07:13:00 up 27 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 13 total, 1 running, 12 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 524288k total, 16808k used, 507480k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 15 0 2024 680 584 S 0 0.1 0:01.71 init
18022 root 18 0 8664 784 448 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 saslauthd
18023 root 18 0 8664 500 164 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 saslauthd
18044 root 15 0 1732 632 504 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 syslogd
18058 root 18 0 5132 2432 1180 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 apache2
18059 www-data 25 0 5132 1844 584 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 apache2
18080 root 15 0 2284 848 664 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 cron
19461 root 18 0 2388 836 668 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 xinetd
19999 root 18 0 9960 1548 500 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 sendmail-mta
20043 root 18 0 5484 964 576 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 sshd
26115 root 15 0 8540 3020 2468 S 0 0.6 0:00.06 sshd
26155 root 16 0 2956 1608 1288 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 bash
26242 root 15 0 2324 1068 872 R 0 0.2 0:00.00 top
With the LNMP stack installed, is about 62MB, which is still pretty good:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512 62 449 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 62 449
Swap: 0 0 0
And the corresponding top output:
top - 02:07:15 up 1 day, 15:21, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.59, 0.67 Tasks: 21 total, 1 running, 20 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 524288k total, 63840k used, 460448k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17743 www 25 0 14492 10m 412 S 0 2.0 0:00.00 nginx 13336 mysql 19 0 34792 5828 3152 S 0 1.1 0:00.00 mysqld 17731 root 18 0 22700 4540 1380 S 0 0.9 0:00.00 php-cgi 17732 www 18 0 22700 4160 1000 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 php-cgi 17733 www 18 0 22700 4160 1000 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 php-cgi 17734 www 18 0 22700 4160 1000 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 php-cgi 17735 www 18 0 22700 4160 1000 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 php-cgi 17736 www 25 0 22700 4160 1000 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 php-cgi 12141 root 18 0 8684 3036 2468 S 0 0.6 0:01.59 sshd 12259 root 15 0 2956 1628 1304 S 0 0.3 0:00.21 bash 19999 root 18 0 9960 1548 500 S 0 0.3 0:24.50 sendmail-mta 12192 root 18 0 2672 1204 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 mysqld_safe 28251 root 15 0 2324 1072 876 R 0 0.2 0:00.00 top 20043 root 18 0 5484 964 576 S 0 0.2 0:00.13 sshd 18080 root 15 0 2284 848 664 S 0 0.2 0:00.04 cron 19461 root 18 0 2388 836 668 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 xinetd 18022 root 18 0 8664 784 448 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 saslauthd
htop output for those who are curious:
And about 1.7GB of hard drive space was used:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 1.7G 8.4G 17% / tmpfs 256M 0 256M 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 256M 0 256M 0% /dev/shm
And Inodes are set to pretty high values as well:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 5242880 69627 5173253 2% / tmpfs 65536 4 65532 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 65536 1 65535 1% /dev/shm
uptime shows the VPS is very lightly used:
uptime 21:34:09 up 1 day, 14:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
which is confirmed by the output of vmstat:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 0 502476 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 0 0 100 0
cpuinfo shows there are 2 cores for the VPS, and they are not throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2493.748 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm bogomips : 4987.49 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 2493.748 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm bogomips : 4987.53 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Beancounters are set to reasonable values, although the privvmpages might not be very high:
cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
334: kmemsize 3067739 218966317 2147483646 2147483646 0
lockedpages 0 0 999999 999999 0
privvmpages 18267 71721 131072 131072 0
shmpages 642 672 65536 65536 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 26 76 999999 999999 0
physpages 9458 36923 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 65536 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 9458 36923 65536 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 7 10 7999992 7999992 0
numflock 4 10 999999 999999 0
numpty 1 2 500000 500000 0
numsiginfo 0 14 999999 999999 0
tcpsndbuf 137984 531824 214748160 396774400 0
tcprcvbuf 114688 2452592 214748160 396774400 0
othersockbuf 11640 49624 214748160 396774400 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0
numothersock 16 18 7999992 7999992 0
dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0
numfile 701 1511 23999976 23999976 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 14 14 999999 999999 0
Disk I/O is pretty reasonable at approximately 50MB/s:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.6407 s, 52.0 MB/s
Testing it again gives pretty consistent results:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 23.3343 s, 46.0 MB/s
Vzfree shows no overselling in memory resources:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 2.63M 2045.37M
Allocate: 512.00M 68.48M 443.52M (256M Guaranteed)
Commit: 256.00M 37.64M 218.36M (51.1% of Allocated)
Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
meminfo does not give too much additional information, although I am (still!) curious about why there are so many 0s in the output:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 524288 kB MemFree: 502588 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 0 kB Inactive: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 524288 kB LowFree: 502588 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 0 kB Mapped: 0 kB Slab: 0 kB PageTables: 0 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 0 kB Committed_AS: 0 kB VmallocTotal: 0 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
On a 100mbit port, the network speed is perhaps just average:
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-27 02:08:28-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 3.53M/s in 30s 2011-08-27 02:08:58 (3.31 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Although the upload speed seems to give a much better picture. On my BuyVM VPS in Fremont, CA, I was able to get above 5MB/s:
wget 209.236.123.10/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-26 16:46:04-- http://209.236.123.10/100mb.test Connecting to 209.236.123.10:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s in 17s 2011-08-26 16:46:22 (5.76 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Quickweb VPS in London, UK, gives the second best results:
wget 209.236.123.10/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-26 16:49:17-- http://209.236.123.10/100mb.test Connecting to 209.236.123.10:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 10.9M/s in 21s 2011-08-26 16:49:39 (4.66 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
And finally, Nix Communication’s VPS in Montreal, Canada, had the slowest download speed from the test VPS:
wget 209.236.123.10/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-08-27 00:47:03-- http://209.236.123.10/100mb.test Connecting to 209.236.123.10:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.06M/s in 91s 2011-08-27 00:48:34 (1.10 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Basically, the western coast offered the best speed, followed by Europe and unfortunately the download speed is not all that great for the east coast, making it perhaps more useful if the majority of the users of the VPS are to be based in west coast or Europe.
Finally the benchmark score showed pretty reasonable results, considering the amount of resources offered:
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Version 5.1.3 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
January 13, 2011 johantheghost at yahoo period com
1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Process Creation 1 2 3
1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: evolucix: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (4987.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (4987.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
02:39:13 up 1 day, 15:53, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.06; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sat Aug 27 2011 02:39:13 - 03:07:26
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11952199.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2213.4 MWIPS (10.6 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3557.7 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 399703.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 114266.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 642495.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 762805.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 181345.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 9727.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4493.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 942.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 619197.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11952199.3 1024.2
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2213.4 402.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 3557.7 827.4
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 399703.0 1009.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 114266.0 690.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 642495.9 1107.8
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 762805.0 613.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 181345.3 453.4
Process Creation 126.0 9727.7 772.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4493.9 1059.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 942.9 1571.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 619197.4 412.8
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System Benchmarks Index Score 762.9
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Benchmark Run: Sat Aug 27 2011 03:07:26 - 03:35:42
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 23952616.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 4434.0 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5104.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 146463.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 46800.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 387351.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1553819.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 473502.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13536.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6820.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1006.9 lpm (60.5 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1013720.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 23952616.1 2052.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 4434.0 806.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 5104.7 1187.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 146463.2 369.9
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 46800.9 282.8
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 387351.7 667.8
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1553819.5 1249.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 473502.9 1183.8
Process Creation 126.0 13536.5 1074.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6820.5 1608.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1006.9 1678.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1013720.8 675.8
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System Benchmarks Index Score 926.0
Testing again yielded pretty much the same results:
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Version 5.1.3 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
January 13, 2011 johantheghost at yahoo period com
1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Process Creation 1 2 3
1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Process Creation 1 2 3
2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: evolucix: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 2010
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (4987.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (4987.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
03:37:22 up 1 day, 16:51, 1 user, load average: 2.27, 5.18, 3.58; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sat Aug 27 2011 03:37:22 - 04:05:34
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11634340.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2261.9 MWIPS (10.4 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3537.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 388918.5 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 113139.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 679932.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 778262.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 205065.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 10130.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4534.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 938.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 620323.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11634340.5 996.9
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2261.9 411.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 3537.3 822.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 388918.5 982.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 113139.0 683.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 679932.5 1172.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 778262.7 625.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 205065.6 512.7
Process Creation 126.0 10130.0 804.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4534.4 1069.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 938.2 1563.6
System Call Overhead 15000.0 620323.3 413.5
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System Benchmarks Index Score 775.5
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Benchmark Run: Sat Aug 27 2011 04:05:34 - 04:33:45
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 23362264.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 4442.3 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5163.1 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 145445.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 46152.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 387137.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1551761.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 466099.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 13726.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6653.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 959.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1012105.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 23362264.0 2001.9
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 4442.3 807.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 5163.1 1200.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 145445.2 367.3
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 46152.9 278.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 387137.4 667.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1551761.9 1247.4
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 466099.0 1165.2
Process Creation 126.0 13726.7 1089.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6653.5 1569.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 959.9 1599.8
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1012105.8 674.7
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System Benchmarks Index Score 917.5
GeekBench showed pretty decent results actually, making the overall score well above 3000 points:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Xeon E5420)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 2
Processor Frequency: 2.49 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 0.00 B
L1 Data Cache: 0.00 B
L2 Cache: 6.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor Cores: 2
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1436 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 2930 |||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2015 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3847 |||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1800 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3509 ||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1722 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2646 ||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1484 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 2745 ||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3415 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6505 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 1864 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3704 ||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 2729 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7089 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2564 ||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 5600 ||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2192 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2228 ||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 2917 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4040 ||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 4874 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9726 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 4425 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8704 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 2276 |||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 3427 |||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 2271 |||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 1330 |||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 2665 ||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 1932 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2155 ||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 1981 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2068 ||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 1777 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2073 ||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 1917 |||||||
single-threaded vector 1541 ||||||
Integer Score: 2837 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 4475 |||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 2393 |||||||||
Stream Score: 1930 |||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 3230 ||||||||||||
And running it one more time:
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Xeon E5420)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 2
Processor Frequency: 2.49 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 0.00 B
L1 Data Cache: 0.00 B
L2 Cache: 6.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor Cores: 2
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1436 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 2930 |||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2015 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3847 |||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1800 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3509 ||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1722 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2646 ||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1484 |||||
multi-threaded scalar 2745 ||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3415 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6505 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 1864 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3704 ||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 2729 ||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7089 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2564 ||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 5600 ||||||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2192 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2228 ||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 2917 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4040 ||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 4874 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 9726 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 4425 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 8704 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 2276 |||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 3427 |||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 2271 |||||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 1330 |||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 2665 ||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 1932 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2155 ||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 1981 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2068 ||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 1777 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2073 ||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 1917 |||||||
single-threaded vector 1541 ||||||
Integer Score: 2837 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 4475 |||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 2393 |||||||||
Stream Score: 1930 |||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 3230 ||||||||||||
System Information
Platform: Linux x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 i686
Model: Linux PC (Intel Xeon E5420)
Motherboard: Unknown Motherboard
Processor: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 2
Processor Frequency: 2.49 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 0.00 B
L1 Data Cache: 0.00 B
L2 Cache: 6.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 0.00 Hz
Memory: 15.6 GB
Memory Type: N/A
SIMD: 1
BIOS: N/A
Processor Model: Intel Xeon E5420
Processor Cores: 2
Integer
Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1799 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3684 ||||||||||||||
Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 2015 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3843 |||||||||||||||
Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1819 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3692 ||||||||||||||
Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1721 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3129 ||||||||||||
Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1517 ||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2764 |||||||||||
Lua
single-threaded scalar 3420 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 6503 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 1865 |||||||
multi-threaded scalar 3691 ||||||||||||||
Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 3414 |||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7010 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
single-threaded vector 2565 ||||||||||
multi-threaded vector 4727 ||||||||||||||||||
LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 2187 ||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 2218 ||||||||
Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 2913 |||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 4614 ||||||||||||||||||
Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 4806 |||||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 10949 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 4433 |||||||||||||||||
multi-threaded scalar 7173 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 2174 ||||||||
Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 3353 |||||||||||||
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 1819 |||||||
Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 1315 |||||
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 2644 ||||||||||
Stream
Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 1919 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2070 ||||||||
Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 1954 |||||||
single-threaded vector 2001 ||||||||
Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 1741 ||||||
single-threaded vector 2016 ||||||||
Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 1903 |||||||
single-threaded vector 1502 ||||||
Integer Score: 2992 |||||||||||
Floating Point Score: 4468 |||||||||||||||||
Memory Score: 2261 |||||||||
Stream Score: 1888 |||||||
Overall Geekbench Score: 3251 |||||||||||||
Customer Service and Support
The support provided by Evolucix is pretty quick, my first support request sent on a Saturday was completed in 2 hours 10 minutes (ticket sent at 12:25PM, answered at 12:35PM), and second one (which is sent on Monday evening, sent at 7:57PM) was actually responded within a minute! That is pretty fast response and I think particularly the fact that Alvish was asking me if there is anything they could do rather than just respond with facts makes me really think the support is great.
Conclusion
The VPS provided by Evolucix is perhaps not one of the best I have seen, and the relatively high price points makes them not exactly very competitive in the budget markets, where many hosting providers charging 60% as much could provide a VPS with comparable performance. Some work still have to be done on their WHMCS end, and many aspects of the VPS could have been better. Having said that, support is fast and helpful, which makes them perhaps a good candidate for the beginners who would like to learn more about VPS.
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