96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXVI – Chicago VPS Enterprise
The hottest topic on the low end VPS community this week is definitely not a lot far from ChicagoVPS and their seems insane offer which has made more than 150 discussions on the post and another over 20 posts on webhostingtalk.com within the 24 hours after the topic was started, which is pretty impressive. I was one of the curious souls out there as well and decided to sign one up and see how it works.
General Information And Set Up
On the web page, the pricing model seems more or less aligned with the “regular” pricing:
Click on Order Now would bring you to the normal (and almost getting annoying) domain registration page on WHMCS, which is using HTTPS connection:
I know for shared hosting, such information in rather important since whatever domain you have put up here will eventually becomes part of your CPanel user name. However for VPS users, I am almost certain that very few would register a domain name when they have signed up their server.
Addons are pretty much charged by the market price with no special discount and DirectAdmin is yet to be available:
Provision is more or less instant, the time stamp on both my Paypal receipt email and new VPS information email showed the same time stamp although the provision email did not come in until a few minutes later. The welcome email was pretty standard, with passwords in plain text and SolusVM control panel on non-standard port with HTTPS connection.
Once logged into the WHMCS control panel via the HTTPS login page, the information on the VPS and basic control are shown:
What is interesting is that for some reason, the WHMCS system that Chicago VPS has used seems to have the ability to dynamically display and not display graph randomly. The screenshot above was obtained when I logged into the system for the first time, and the screenshot below was taken when I logged in a few minutes ago:
As you can see, this time, all graphs are available, which is different from the graph above when the load graph, for some reason, was not available.
All control buttons seem to work, which is another great plus.
After login into the SolusVM control panel through the non-standard HTTPS port using the user name assigned, a pretty standard SolusVM interface is shown:
The only major difference I have noticed is Quick Backup is not shown, only Central Backup is in the Backup Control area, what is even better is it actually works and I have a free backup quota that I can make use of:
Some customization were done on the IP addresses page as well, unfortunately, instant rDNS is still not available, however I would assume it would be shown once the rDNS is requested through the support ticket:
There are quite a few OS templates available:
As you can see, pretty much all major Linux distributions are covered here and most of the latest releases of the distributions can be found on the list too.
Test on the VPS
As mentioned above, the VPS has 2048MB of RAM and 50GB of hard drive space and is located in the ColoCrossing Data Centre in Chicago, IL in US. I have put Debian 6 32 bit for testing purposes. Note that TUN/TAP is not available by default on the VPS but can be enabled with a ticket.
With a fresh OS template reload, the VPS uses about 38MB of memory, which is a little higher compare to many other barebone Debian OS install but is reasonable:
free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2048 38 2009 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 38 2009 Swap: 0 0 0
Note that there is no burstable memory offered on the VPS, which is different from many of the OpenVZ providers.
Corresponding output showing the top output, which, surprisingly, Apache2 was not installed, unlike many other default OS template:
top - 02:00:25 up 11:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 7 total, 2 running, 5 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: 2097152k total, 40128k used, 2057024k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22208 root 18 0 8248 2840 2320 R 0 0.1 0:00.09 sshd 22211 root 16 0 2972 1628 1296 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 bash 1265 root 25 0 33436 1372 1020 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 rsyslogd 22217 root 15 0 2324 1060 872 R 0 0.1 0:00.00 top 1297 root 18 0 5484 988 600 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd 1291 root 15 0 2284 764 596 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 cron 1 root 15 0 2024 676 584 S 0 0.0 0:00.43 init
The barebone install used about 348MB of hard drive space:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 348M 50G 1% / tmpfs 1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /dev/shm
And barely 1% of the Inodes:
df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 26214400 15377 26199023 1% / tmpfs 262144 4 262140 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 262144 1 262143 1% /dev/shm
After the LNMP stack is installed, approximately 90MB of RAM were used:
free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2048 89 1958 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 89 1958 Swap: 0 0 0
And the corresponding top output:
top - 20:27:14 up 21:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 17 total, 1 running, 16 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: 2097152k total, 91600k used, 2005552k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26339 www 25 0 14496 10m 412 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 nginx 23711 mysql 19 0 34792 5832 3152 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 mysqld 26313 root 18 0 22700 4536 1380 S 0 0.2 0:02.51 php-cgi 26317 www 25 0 22700 4156 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 php-cgi 26323 www 25 0 22700 4156 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 php-cgi 26327 www 25 0 22700 4156 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 php-cgi 26329 www 25 0 22700 4156 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 php-cgi 26334 www 25 0 22700 4156 1000 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 php-cgi 22208 root 15 0 8388 2892 2336 S 0 0.1 0:02.33 sshd 22211 root 18 0 2972 1664 1328 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 bash 1265 root 25 0 33436 1360 1020 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 rsyslogd 27663 root 15 0 2324 1068 876 R 0 0.1 0:00.00 top 1297 root 18 0 5484 988 600 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd 1291 root 18 0 2284 764 596 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 cron 26338 root 25 0 4684 712 264 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 nginx 1 root 18 0 2024 676 584 S 0 0.0 0:00.55 init 23609 root 18 0 1740 520 436 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 mysqld_safe
The htop output for those htop fans:
And close to 3GB of hard drive space were used:
df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 50G 2.7G 48G 6% / tmpfs 1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /dev/shm
vmstat was pretty interesting since I was hoping the CPU would be 100% idle:
vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 0 2056980 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 375 3 3 94 0
However uptime does show the VPS is pretty much empty:
uptime 02:01:38 up 11:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The beancounters values are set to pretty low considering it is a full 2GB RAM VPS:
cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 924: kmemsize 742288 35224266 2147483646 2147483646 0 lockedpages 0 16 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 10101 93240 524288 524288 0 shmpages 640 656 524288 524288 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 9 110 999999 999999 0 physpages 1372 8690 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 524288 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 1372 8690 524288 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 2 3 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 1 7 999999 999999 0 numpty 1 2 500000 500000 0 numsiginfo 0 3 999999 999999 0 tcpsndbuf 37336 67968 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 32768 1642016 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 2328 21088 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 2 5 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0 numfile 205 1765 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 4 4 999999 999999 0
Four CPU cores are made available here and best of all, they are not throttled:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2400.147 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 4800.29 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8] processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2400.147 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 8 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 16 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 4800.08 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8] processor : 2 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2400.147 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 9 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 18 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 4800.14 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8] processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2400.147 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 10 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 20 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx 16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 4800.14 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [8]
And as usual, meminfo does not show a lot of interesting information:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2097152 kB MemFree: 2057044 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 0 kB Inactive: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 2097152 kB LowFree: 2057044 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 2340 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
Although vzfree does not any heavy overselling:
vzfree Total Used Free Kernel: 2048.00M 0.71M 2047.29M Allocate: 2048.00M 39.46M 2008.54M (2048M Guaranteed) Commit: 2048.00M 6.06M 2041.94M (13.6% of Allocated) Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
Time sync values are pretty decent:
time sync real 0m0.022s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s
However, compare to all of the above, none of them are as impressive as the disk I/O:
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, 10.2322 s, 105 MB/s
Yes, I simply could not believe I was getting a triple digit disk I/O for this VPS!
Testing again shows slightly worse results, but is nonetheless more than the majority of people could ask for:
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, 11.6269 s, 92.3 MB/s
The download speed is pretty good as well, I was be able to get slightly above 10MB/s downloading the test file from Cachefly, which is not bad at all considering it is a 100Mbit port:
wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null --2011-09-03 02:06:14-- 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 9.85M/s in 9.8s 2011-09-03 02:06:23 (10.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Download speed varies, with, surpisingly, my Nix Communications VPS in Montreal, Canada offer the lowest speed although they are geographically the closest:
wget -O /dev/null 96.8.120.89/100mb.test --2011-09-05 08:49:13-- http://96.8.120.89/100mb.test Connecting to 96.8.120.89:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.17M/s in 87s 2011-09-05 08:50:40 (1.15 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
All other places, however, shows really good download speed:
BuyVM VPS in San Jose, CA:
wget -O /dev/null 96.8.120.89/100mb.test --2011-09-04 20:52:57-- http://96.8.120.89/100mb.test Connecting to 96.8.120.89:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 8.14M/s in 13s 2011-09-04 20:53:10 (7.66 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
And Quickweb in London, UK, which clocked close to the line speed although they are the furthest apart:
wget -O /dev/null 96.8.120.89/100mb.test --2011-09-04 20:52:16-- http://96.8.120.89/100mb.test Connecting to 96.8.120.89:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 9.34M/s in 13s 2011-09-04 20:52:29 (7.64 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Given the specs of the VPS seems to be rather good, I was not surprised when the VPS did pretty well in UnixBench, although I was really hoping it would have done better. Granted, many people were probably running UnixBench on the new node while I was running it, which could slow the system down a lot:
# # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # 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 4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Process Creation 1 2 3 4 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3 4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3 ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: chicagovps: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 -- #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.3 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 20:29:21 up 21:57, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.02; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 03 2011 20:29:21 - 20:57:32 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 10795093.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2454.4 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3589.0 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 390660.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 118121.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 884097.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 754926.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 128869.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 8905.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5127.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1515.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 639944.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 10795093.7 925.0 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2454.4 446.3 Execl Throughput 43.0 3589.0 834.7 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 390660.7 986.5 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 118121.3 713.7 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 884097.6 1524.3 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 754926.6 606.9 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 128869.8 322.2 Process Creation 126.0 8905.7 706.8 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5127.5 1209.3 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1515.9 2526.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 639944.5 426.6 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 797.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 03 2011 20:57:32 - 21:26:03 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 41890799.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 9611.7 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 7690.6 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 280286.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 88080.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 763477.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 2858237.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 870738.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 28728.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11559.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2009.0 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 2148733.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 41890799.3 3589.6 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 9611.7 1747.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 7690.6 1788.5 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 280286.4 707.8 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 88080.4 532.2 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 763477.5 1316.3 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2858237.4 2297.6 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 870738.4 2176.8 Process Creation 126.0 28728.5 2280.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11559.1 2726.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2009.0 3348.4 System Call Overhead 15000.0 2148733.4 1432.5 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 1750.8
Testing again gives pretty consistent results:
# # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # 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 4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3 4 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Process Creation 1 2 3 4 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3 4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3 ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: chicagovps: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 -- #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.3 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 22:39:33 up 1 day, 7 min, 2 users, load average: 5.27, 3.92, 3.05; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 03 2011 22:39:33 - 23:08:01 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 10848267.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2385.4 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3568.1 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 377141.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 112309.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 870644.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 750421.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 140197.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 8874.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4877.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1469.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 604290.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 10848267.5 929.6 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2385.4 433.7 Execl Throughput 43.0 3568.1 829.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 377141.3 952.4 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 112309.7 678.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 870644.1 1501.1 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 750421.9 603.2 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 140197.3 350.5 Process Creation 126.0 8874.2 704.3 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4877.5 1150.4 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1469.8 2449.7 System Call Overhead 15000.0 604290.8 402.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 785.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 03 2011 23:08:01 - 23:36:40 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 39355746.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 9428.1 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 7172.5 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 300316.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 87661.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 753379.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 2920665.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 899236.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 28694.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11736.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2063.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 2146473.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 39355746.5 3372.4 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 9428.1 1714.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 7172.5 1668.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 300316.8 758.4 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 87661.5 529.7 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 753379.8 1298.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2920665.8 2347.8 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 899236.2 2248.1 Process Creation 126.0 28694.3 2277.3 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11736.6 2768.1 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2063.1 3438.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 2146473.2 1431.0 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 1749.8
Geekbench score is definitely great and in my opinion, reflect the true performance of this VPS:
System Information Operating System Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 i686 Model N/A Motherboard N/A Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz @ 0.00 Hz 1 Processor, 4 Cores, 4 Threads Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2 L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 L3 Cache 12.0 MB Memory 31.4 GB N/A BIOS N/A Integer Blowfish single-threaded scalar 2029 |||||||| multi-threaded scalar 7136 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Text Compress single-threaded scalar 1378 ||||| multi-threaded scalar 5732 |||||||||||||||||||||| Text Decompress single-threaded scalar 1878 ||||||| multi-threaded scalar 6353 ||||||||||||||||||||||||| Image Compress single-threaded scalar 1945 ||||||| multi-threaded scalar 5169 |||||||||||||||||||| Image Decompress single-threaded scalar 1494 ||||| multi-threaded scalar 4189 |||||||||||||||| Lua single-threaded scalar 3199 |||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 9002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Floating Point Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar 2146 |||||||| multi-threaded scalar 8286 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Dot Product single-threaded scalar 3400 ||||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 10045 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3309 ||||||||||||| multi-threaded vector 7877 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar 2343 ||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 5259 ||||||||||||||||||||| Primality Test single-threaded scalar 3204 |||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 8297 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar 8870 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 20198 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Blur Image single-threaded scalar 8706 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 22430 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Memory Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 3927 ||||||||||||||| Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 6485 ||||||||||||||||||||||||| Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 4061 |||||||||||||||| Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 3498 ||||||||||||| Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 5857 ||||||||||||||||||||||| Stream Stream Copy single-threaded scalar 3615 |||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 4605 |||||||||||||||||| Stream Scale single-threaded scalar 2937 ||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3978 ||||||||||||||| Stream Add single-threaded scalar 3678 |||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 4433 ||||||||||||||||| Stream Triad single-threaded scalar 3626 |||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3002 |||||||||||| Benchmark Summary Integer Score 4125 |||||||||||||||| Floating Point Score 8169 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Memory Score 4765 ||||||||||||||||||| Stream Score 3734 |||||||||||||| Geekbench Score 5629 ||||||||||||||||||||||
And test again:
System Information Operating System Linux 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 i686 Model N/A Motherboard N/A Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz @ 0.00 H z 1 Processor, 4 Cores, 4 Threads Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2 L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2 L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2 L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 L3 Cache 12.0 MB Memory 31.4 GB N/A BIOS N/A Integer Blowfish single-threaded scalar 1751 ||||||| multi-threaded scalar 7559 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Text Compress single-threaded scalar 1896 ||||||| multi-threaded scalar 5796 ||||||||||||||||||||||| Text Decompress single-threaded scalar 2141 |||||||| multi-threaded scalar 6238 |||||||||||||||||||||||| Image Compress single-threaded scalar 1941 ||||||| multi-threaded scalar 5231 |||||||||||||||||||| Image Decompress single-threaded scalar 1744 |||||| multi-threaded scalar 4464 ||||||||||||||||| Lua single-threaded scalar 3190 |||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 8651 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Floating Point Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar 2110 |||||||| multi-threaded scalar 8397 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Dot Product single-threaded scalar 3134 |||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 10383 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3283 ||||||||||||| multi-threaded vector 10799 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar 2331 ||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 5230 |||||||||||||||||||| Primality Test single-threaded scalar 3194 |||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 8048 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar 8316 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 20522 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Blur Image single-threaded scalar 7896 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| multi-threaded scalar 23023 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Memory Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 4127 |||||||||||||||| Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 5128 |||||||||||||||||||| Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 3957 ||||||||||||||| Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 3224 |||||||||||| Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 5965 ||||||||||||||||||||||| Stream Stream Copy single-threaded scalar 3314 ||||||||||||| single-threaded vector 4300 ||||||||||||||||| Stream Scale single-threaded scalar 2760 ||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3646 |||||||||||||| Stream Add single-threaded scalar 3214 |||||||||||| single-threaded vector 4112 |||||||||||||||| Stream Triad single-threaded scalar 3120 |||||||||||| single-threaded vector 3132 |||||||||||| Benchmark Summary Integer Score 4216 |||||||||||||||| Floating Point Score 8333 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Memory Score 4480 ||||||||||||||||| Stream Score 3449 ||||||||||||| Geekbench Score 5633 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall, the performance of the VPS has definitely impressed me, I bought this VPS hoping to see a heavily oversold machine with terrible disk I/O and barely usable memory, but instead, I was been given a solid VPS with great I/O and good performance in general.
Customer Service and Support
Although Chicago VPS must have a lot of new customers in the past few days, their customer service remains to be excellent. My ticket sent in at 8:48AM on a Saturday was answered by 9:05AM, which was within 17 minutes and another ticket which was raised at 11:32AM was answered at 11:55AM, barely 23 minutes later.
A few good things about their ticket system though: one, the clients are allowed to reply the ticket by replying back the emails, which is something I really prefer to see, and two, once the ticket is logged, you get a live update of how long the response is going to be. Although basically it is just an estimate and hence won’t be too accurate, it basically gives the idea and is good enough to see how long you will need to wait approximately:
Conclusion
I think most of the people were just like me when they see the offer: skeptical. I was expecting a heavily oversold VPS with an insane amount of resources and an insane price and insane little uses. However, ChicagoVPS has proven me wrong, and offered me a solid VPS with solid speed and solid performance at an incredible price. Therefore, although long term performance would remain to be seen (although ChicagoVPS does have a pretty good track record), at least at the moment, this is definitely a great deal for anyone who is considering having a not-so-low-end VPS at a very “low-end” price.
Great review!
I’m curious to know something..
Do they allow IRC on that low-end VPS? IPv6-ready?
Thank you.
@JasonH: I think based on this comment here, IRC is allowed and no IPv6 yet.
I ordered one of the Enterprise VPSs from ChicagoVPS and am quite pleased. My Unixbench (version 5.1.2) results seem a bit better than what you’ve reported. Notice the processor is different on this node too…
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Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
December 22, 2007 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
4 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
4 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Process Creation 1 2 3
4 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
4 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
System: chicago: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 -- #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 19:23:22 MSD 2011
Machine: x86_64 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5333.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualiza tion
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5333.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualiza tion
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5333.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualiza tion
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz (5333.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualiza tion
03:18:27 up 5 days, 5:58, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.18, 0.14; runlevel 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Sep 07 2011 03:18:27 - 03:47:30
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 25662016.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3296.8 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3853.5 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 610050.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 167443.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1336664.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1074799.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 293918.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 12118.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6505.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1985.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 965948.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 25662016.8 2199.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3296.8 599.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 3853.5 896.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 610050.0 1540.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 167443.7 1011.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1336664.2 2304.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1074799.3 864.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 293918.7 734.8
Process Creation 126.0 12118.0 961.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6505.1 1534.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1985.4 3309.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 965948.0 644.0
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1194.9
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Benchmark Run: Wed Sep 07 2011 03:47:30 - 04:16:51
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 83117271.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 12262.9 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 11981.1 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 408857.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 102693.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1116188.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 3503299.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 1048184.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 35288.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 18699.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 2482.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 3227833.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 83117271.0 7122.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 12262.9 2229.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 11981.1 2786.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 408857.3 1032.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 102693.8 620.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1116188.2 1924.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 3503299.1 2816.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 1048184.4 2620.5
Process Creation 126.0 35288.5 2800.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 18699.1 4410.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 2482.7 4137.8
System Call Overhead 15000.0 3227833.0 2151.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 2438.8
@Jacob: That does look pretty good, are you on node 19 or 20?
Actually neither. I’m on node “Chicago VPS16” as shown when I log in to SolusVM.
@Jacob: You are a really lucky guy, mine, which has a LNMP stack with about 5 wordpress websites running at the moment, is showing this at the moment:
vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 28.64M 2019.36M
Allocate: 2048.00M 2025.61M 22.39M (2048M Guaranteed)
Commit: 2048.00M 1658.95M 389.05M (80.5% of Allocated)
Swap: 162.80M (10.0% of Committed)
And this is after I have just rebooted it yesterday:
uptime
17:52:16 up 1 day, 43 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
and top output:
top – 17:55:58 up 1 day, 47 min, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 123 total, 1 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2097152k total, 2082608k used, 14544k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1401 mysql 15 0 297m 40m 4104 S 0 2.0 0:03.32 mysqld
1436 www 15 0 61332 35m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.42 php-fpm
1452 www 15 0 63028 35m 14m S 0 1.7 0:02.82 php-fpm
1458 www 15 0 63052 35m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.33 php-fpm
1448 www 15 0 62556 35m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.32 php-fpm
1506 www 15 0 65280 34m 13m S 0 1.7 0:01.49 php-fpm
1453 www 15 0 62568 34m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.11 php-fpm
1461 www 15 0 62312 34m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.10 php-fpm
1467 www 15 0 63336 34m 13m S 0 1.7 0:01.98 php-fpm
1466 www 16 0 61960 34m 13m S 0 1.7 0:02.72 php-fpm
1421 www 15 0 64808 33m 11m S 0 1.7 0:01.40 php-fpm
1442 www 15 0 61776 33m 14m S 0 1.7 0:01.84 php-fpm
1479 www 15 0 61704 33m 13m S 0 1.6 0:01.73 php-fpm
1451 www 15 0 61080 33m 12m S 0 1.6 0:02.61 php-fpm
3358 www 15 0 61712 33m 13m S 0 1.6 0:00.93 php-fpm
1501 www 15 0 60596 33m 11m S 0 1.6 0:02.54 php-fpm
1468 www 15 0 62300 32m 13m S 0 1.6 0:01.58 php-fpm
I have no idea what that actually means or how it’s relevant.
@Jacob: 10% of the total memory is swapped, that normally means the node is running out of memory, i.e., heavily oversold…
Thank you. Ok, for what it matters, here’s the output of vzfree on my VPS on node 16:
root@chicago:/tmp/vzfree-0.1# vzfree
Total Used Free
Kernel: 2048.00M 19.77M 2028.23M
Allocate: 2048.00M 769.46M 1278.54M (2048M Guaranteed)
Commit: 2048.00M 442.12M 1605.88M (54.9% of Allocated)
Swap: 0.00M (0.0% of Committed)
Does this mean none of the memory is swapped?
This is running a LAMP stack with Virtualmin BTW, which is currently using about 800 mb RAM..
@Jacob: Yes, for your case no memory was swapped, however you are using relatively little memory (less than half of what you were supposed to get), try to boost that to close to 2GB and you will see the swapping, but if 800MB is all you need, guess you will be a quite happy soul! 🙂
Hello,Admin
Does the VPS really located in Chicago??
I don’t think so..Check this out:
http://www.plotip.com/ip/96.8.120
The record was probably based on the registered address of ColoCrossing, since ChicagoVPS does not own the IP space.
96.8.120.82
I bought one few days ago..But the uplink is really bad..
I uploaded a 600MB files.then downloaded it..Only 4KB-10KB/s…
That’s horrible..
Last login: Mon Jan 30 05:29:23 2012 from 58.242.229.193
[root@jndzh ~]# 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, 47.2774 seconds, 22.7 MB/s