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:

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Click on Order Now would bring you to the normal (and almost getting annoying) domain registration page on WHMCS, which is using HTTPS connection:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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There are quite a few OS templates available:

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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:

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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:

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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

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:

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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

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:

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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.

14 thoughts on “96MB Low End VPS Review Part XXVI – Chicago VPS Enterprise

  1. 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

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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: 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

          • @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! 🙂

  2. 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

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