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Review - Provision Host

PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep
edited July 2012 in Reviews

Hi,

Going on from the format of @maxexcloo and also @HalfEatenPie... I picked up one of the Free test VPS's from Provision Host to do some benchmarking on.

provisionhost.com

I picked up one of the test VPS's with the following specs: 256MB RAM, 10GB Disk Space, 250GB Bandwidth and CentOS. The best IO test out of the number I did was this one:

[root@letest ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.69293 seconds, 140 MB/s

**Location: **The server is located in Dallas, and I am on node 3.

Support: I only gave Brandon the DD test like he asked - and he responded in a few minutes, but he was online at the time

Here is the ps aux output of a clean install:

[root@letest ~]# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.2   2068   648 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 init [3]
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:58   0:00 [kthreadd/2020]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    09:58   0:00 [khelper/2020]
root       455  0.0  0.2   1724   576 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 syslogd -m 0
root       468  0.0  0.3   7128  1040 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root       479  0.0  0.3   2724   844 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 xinetd -stayali
root       498  0.0  0.6   9032  1656 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 sendmail: accep
smmsp      506  0.0  0.5   8128  1472 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 sendmail: Queue
root       518  0.0  1.0  10488  2876 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache     520  0.0  0.7  10488  2072 ?        S    09:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
root       529  0.0  0.4   4404  1108 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 crond
root       539  0.0  0.2   5576   692 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla
root       540  0.0  0.1   5576   420 ?        S    09:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla
root       553  0.0  1.1   9964  3108 ?        Ss   09:58   0:00 sshd: root@pts/
root       555  0.0  0.5   3620  1508 pts/0    Ss   09:58   0:00 -bash
root       586  0.0  0.3   2440   920 pts/0    R+   10:06   0:00 ps aux

Basic info:

/proc/cpuinfo shows this:

[root@letest ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 45
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1200.000
cache size      : 15360 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 12
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 4000.34
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 45
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2001.000
cache size      : 15360 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 12
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 3999.40
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 45
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1200.000
cache size      : 15360 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 12
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 4
initial apicid  : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 3999.40
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 45
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1200.000
cache size      : 15360 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 12
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 6
initial apicid  : 6
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 3999.40
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

/proc/meminfo shows this:

[root@letest ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         262144 kB
MemFree:          242552 kB
Cached:             9012 kB
Active:            14848 kB
Inactive:             44 kB
Active(anon):       5856 kB
Inactive(anon):       24 kB
Active(file):       8992 kB
Inactive(file):       20 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          5880 kB
Shmem:              2680 kB
Slab:               4664 kB
SReclaimable:       2756 kB
SUnreclaim:         1908 kB

Inode allocation:

[root@letest ~]# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           5242880   25092 5217788    1% /

vmstat:

[root@letest ~]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 242492      0   9048    0    0     0  1770    0 17296  0  0 99  0  0

Speed tests to follow...

Comments

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep
    edited July 2012

    Cachefly:

    [root@letest ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --10:12:39--  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: `100mb.test'
    
    100%[===============================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.0s
    
    10:12:48 (11.1 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

    Pings to google:

    [root@letest ~]# ping -c 3 google.com
    PING google.com (74.125.227.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from dfw06s03-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.9): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=0.597 ms
    64 bytes from dfw06s03-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.9): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=0.577 ms
    64 bytes from dfw06s03-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.9): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=0.572 ms
    
    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.572/0.582/0.597/0.010 ms 

    Disk IO:

    [root@letest ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; rm test
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.58733 seconds, 125 MB/s
  • laaevlaaev Member

    Cool.

  • Nice! And I gotta hand it to @maxexcloo for making a pretty professional first couple of review and letting the format stick.

    Just in case you're curious, you can use the </pre/> tags instead of quotes.

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep
    edited July 2012

    @HalfEatenPie said: Just in case you're curious, you can use the </pre/> tags instead of quotes.

    Updated. Found out on IRC ;)

    Thanks though.

    < /endofreview>

  • Thanks for the review Dominic. For those that are interested our new Dallas nodes use hardware RAID10, SAS drives and the new E5 procs.

    This node is actually at full capacity to show how a server in a production environment would perform. We don't want to skew the results by placing a client on an empty server.

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