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Ramnode benchmark - SSD-Cached 256mb
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Ramnode benchmark - SSD-Cached 256mb

taronyutaronyu Member
edited December 2012 in Reviews

I have been customer for a few days right now. It was choosing between Buyvm and Ramnode (http://www.ramnode.com/) but because Buyvm was out of stock I bought one at Ramnode. So far I'm really happy with it, Openvpn is running without any problems and I mainly use it for watching Netflix. I'm currently also running irssi on it. I won't write a review because I think I can't write a good review without being atleast a customer for a month.

The server:

256MB RAM
256MB VSwap
1 CPU Core
40GB SSD-Cached HDD Space
1Gbps Port
1000GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4 Address
16 IPv6 Addresses
Weekly Remote Backups
TUN/TAP

CPU info

root@server:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 58
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3400.139
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
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 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx 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 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips        : 6800.27
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:`

Memory

root@server:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         262144 kB
MemFree:          177200 kB
Cached:            33796 kB
Active:            56532 kB
Inactive:          17596 kB
Active(anon):      23492 kB
Inactive(anon):    16840 kB
Active(file):      33040 kB
Inactive(file):      756 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:        262144 kB
SwapFree:         176892 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         40332 kB
Shmem:              4140 kB
Slab:              10756 kB
SReclaimable:       4048 kB
SUnreclaim:         6708 kB

Benchmark

root@server:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  3400.139 MHz
Total amount of ram : 256 MB
Total amount of swap : 256 MB
System uptime :   23:44,
Download speed from CacheFly: 21.6MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 10.6MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 4.19MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.75MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 635KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.67MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 10.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 10.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 13.8MB/s
I/O speed :  481 MB/s

Download speed

root@server:~# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
--2012-12-16 18:17:56--  http://wget/
Resolving wget... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `wget'
--2012-12-16 18:17:56--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
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.bin'

100%[=====================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 20.4M/s   in 4.9s

2012-12-16 18:18:01 (20.4 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]

FINISHED --2012-12-16 18:18:01--
Downloaded: 1 files, 100M in 4.9s (20.4 MB/s)

I/O test

root@server:~# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           20971520   18557 20952963    1% /
tmpfs                  32768       4   32764    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  32768       6   32762    1% /dev/shm

root@server:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             40G  1.6G   39G   4% /
tmpfs                 128M     0  128M   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 128M  8.0K  128M   1% /dev/shm

root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.78005 s, 603 MB/s

root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.60148 s, 670 MB/s

root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.82993 s, 587 MB/s

root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k oflag=dsync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.7549 s, 110 MB/s

root@server:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k oflag=dsync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.14891 s, 132 MB/s

If there is anything you would like to see tell me and I will see if I can run it for you :)

Adding the US rep's instead of the original german one solved the solution. Thanks for informing me about it Nick, :) 10/10 right now and happy customer! :)

Comments

  • Most repository downloads are slow unless you're running your own local cache dedicated to your network.

  • Nick_ANick_A Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Thanks for the post. I know a couple of our templates have German repos by default for some reason. Have you tried manually changing that?

  • taronyutaronyu Member
    edited December 2012

    @Nick_A No, I expected they would have got the right from the beginning. I will try it and report back in :)

    I changed the German rep's to the US ones and atleast apt-get update works 10 times faster now. Ofcourse I got nothing to install right now so I have to wait for it to see if it really worked. Tough thanks for letting me know @Nick_A Going to change the OP.

  • Nick_ANick_A Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Which template are you using specifically? I'll put it on my to do list to fix it.

  • From Solusvm:

    "Debian 6.0 32-bit Minimal"

    Good luck ;)

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    Good job Nick_A :)

  • The repo issues is often a problem for folks.

    I wish providers would get the right most local and best performing repos in their images by default.

    At minimum, setting up a local repo / mirror / cache really would help them as well as end user. Has to be lots of repo traffic overall for major providers. Know BuyVM has their own mirror for San Jose location...

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