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Test the disk I/O of your VPS

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  • ztecztec Member

    It's not an high tech server but it's not close to sloppy either. It does it's job very good for a great price, I own multiple dedicated servers and even more VPS'.
    Thanks for the info btw, got a little worried.

  • [root@centos6 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync
    65536+0 records in
    65536+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.5906 s, 414 MB/s

    Not bad for a 5400rpm 2.5inch sata drive

  • dmmcintyre3 said: Not bad for a 5400rpm 2.5inch sata drive

    I'm jelly, any special trick? what brand is it?

  • dmmcintyre3dmmcintyre3 Member
    edited August 2011

    VMWare Fusion seems to ignore the conv=fdatasync part.

    It's the FUJITSU MJA2250BH FFS G1 that came with my MacBook Pro.

  • fanfan Veteran

    Such 2.5' 5400rpm drive can only give a result around 60 - 70 mb/s in real world test.

  • tinyraytinyray Member
    edited August 2011

    dd test sometimes does say nothing; I did a very careful benchmark regarding the "computational capability" of VPS on a buyVM OVZ512 box with IO at ~183Mb/s and a 123systems OVZ192 box with IO at ~43Mb/s. I installed R software, a very well-known statistics utility, on these two boxes and ran a pre-processing analysis on 564 microarrays in CEL.gz format which includes the processes of decompress the data files, loading images and scaling the signals. The compressed data size is 1.6GB. I used the time command to record the computational time. The results are very interesting; the buyVM box performs worse than that of 123sys, please see attached,

    buyVM512 (5.95/month)

    real    7m12.764s
    user    6m08.802s
    sys     0m46.443s
    [root@bvm512 ~]# free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:          1024        245        778          0          0          0
    -/+ buffers/cache:        245        778
    Swap:            0          0          0
    

    123systems 192mb-special $15/year

    real    4m43.700s
    user    4m43.275s
    sys     0m3.432s
    [root@123sys192 ~]# free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           384        190        193          0          0          0
    -/+ buffers/cache:        190        193
    Swap:            0          0          0
    

    I was really disappointed with the benchmark results, but not sure what to say. Perhaps I need to ask buyVM for a downgrade on the box. :)

  • tinyraytinyray Member
    edited August 2011

    I did the test again; it seems that things went worse on my buyvmOVZ512;

    real    8m10.887s
    user    6m32.293s
    sys     0m40.195s
    

    meanwhile, the 123sysOVZ192 does not change much,

    real    4m47.281s
    user    4m37.918s
    sys     0m8.584s
    

    In comparison with 123sys one, my box with buyOVZ (2 CPU cores; Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz, 2260.936MHz and 4GB cache) consumes more system resources but gives worse performance than that of 123sys (2vCPU, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz, 1133.373MHz, 8GB cache)

    Anyone knows the reason? your explanation is appreciated!

  • dmmcintyre3 said: Not bad for a 5400rpm 2.5inch sata drive

    You are cheating.... :/

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @tinray I'm still needing to get around to your ticket to see if there's something I may have screwed up in one of the newer pony kernels.

    It's quite possible I swapped something, or there's a setting on your VM, that i'm not noticing.

    If you're able to give me a bit of time to look into it, i'll check into it more later today after I'm done prepping the new router.

    Francisco

  • please consider my ticket #249702. I did discuss with Anthony regarding this but we not yet come to an end lately.

  • tinyraytinyray Member
    edited August 2011

    My latest test;

    buyVM512

    real    7m26.194s
    user    6m21.136s
    sys     0m43.071s
    

    123sys192

    real    4m28.631s
    user    4m24.740s
    sys     0m3.040s
    

    I would upgrade my box to a 4core plan but I am much worry about the performance of the box. Once I upgrade it but find out it performs badly then I just leave it unused. I currently have a some of such boxes.

  • maxexcloomaxexcloo Member
    edited August 2011

    Each test was run three times and the middle ranking result was picked.

    BuyVM 128 MB OpenVZ (test):

    main@test:~$ 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, 12.4161 s, 86.5 MB/s
    

    BuyVM 128 MB OpenVZ (user):

    main@user:~$ 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, 8.2418 s, 130 MB/s
    

    BuyVM 256 MB OpenVZ (site):

    main@www:~$ 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, 9.11935 s, 118 MB/s
    

    BuyVM 512 MB 500 GB Storage KVM (files):

    main@files:~$  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, 79.4276 s, 13.5 MB/s
    

    Hostigation 64 MB Backup OpenVZ (backup):

    main@backup:~$  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, 11.2041 s, 95.8 MB/s
    

    Hostigation 1024 MB KVM (mine):

    main@mine:~$ 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, 4.75138 s, 226 MB/s
    

    Note: This morning the server was doing a solid 260 MB/s, currently it's under disk load :P

    Feral Hosting Helium Slot (feral):

    maxexcloo@shark:~$ 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, 12.2792 s, 87.4 MB/s
    

    Note: There were about 20 active torrents running at the time of the test, I've gotten around 150 MB/s before.

    Feral Hosting Neon Slot (sheep):

    [sheep ~] 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, 12.8169 s, 83.8 MB/s
    

    Note: There were about 20 active torrents running at the time of the test, I've gotten around 150 MB/s before.

  • @maxexcloo, do feral give your own ip, or is it share ip?

  • Shared :P

  • trelawneytrelawney Member
    edited August 2011

    VMLIT 256MB OpenVZ VPS
    pretty much idling at the time.

    $ 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, 8.85125 s, 121 MB/s
    
  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited August 2011

    Hostigation 768M OVZ VPS

    [humza@alpha ~]# 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, 12.0211 seconds, 89.3 MB/s

    4096MB of my Home Server :P (on VMware)

    [humza@frosty ~]# 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, 7.32166 seconds, 147 MB/s
    
  • salmonsalmon Member
    edited August 2011

    qualityservers eliminator

    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, 29.6317 s, 36.2 MB/s

  • sandozsandoz Veteran
    edited August 2011

    same here but slower:
    qualityservers eliminator
    root@vps2:~# 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, 38.0414 s, 28.2 MB/s
    root@vps2:~#

    buyvm:
    root@vps3:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    dd: writing `test': Disk quota exceeded
    292+0 records in
    291+0 records out
    19103744 bytes (19 MB) copied, 0.053323 s, 358 MB/s
    root@vps3:~#

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Eww... SemoWeb 1024MB (used for my webhost as Kloxo, to be migrated to cPanel soon):

    [root@thorin ~]# 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, 92.5219 seconds, 11.6 MB/s
    
  • tuxtux Member

    QualityServers.co.uk UK XEN Eliminator on XM7 node

    [root@localhost ~]# 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, 90.6381 s, 11.8 MB/s
    [root@localhost ~]# 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, 72.988 s, 14.7 MB/s
    [root@localhost ~]# 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, 59.1093 s, 18.2 MB/s
  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Is that your localhost :S Why didn't you change the hostname.

  • tuxtux Member

    It is default host name on Arch Linux template.

  • @Infinity which node are you on, open a ticket that is not normal.

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  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    semoweb said: @Infinity which node are you on, open a ticket that is not normal.

    I don't really know as I am not the account holder and haven't done and when I traceroute it nothing happens, it is my ISP's problem. It all times out for lots of other servers in different datacenters.

    64.31.44.147 is the IP, the VPS has had lots of problems, not all SemoWeb's fault, we got lots of attacks etc. our server very recently failed to start up properly, we would reboot it and it would power itself down again, we hadn't exceeded our BW limit like we had done previously. We bought enough BW.

    We are going to transfer them all to a cPanel server soon.

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  • @Infinity Ah, just found it , the vps is not active, the output is a lot higher than you mentioned but still not up to par so thanks for bringing it to our attention and we will be reviewing that node now.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Our VPS is down yet again.

  • @Infinity Your comment is towards the vps with us?

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Yep

  • @Infinity, per the Ip you supplied above you may want to speak with the account holder as this is not in an active state I cant say much as your not the account holder.

    How ever if you are added or have the login details to the client area you can also submit a ticket to find out more.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Nope. The server keeps going offline then back. Nothing to do with anything we are running. As far as I'm concerned this is rubbish service.

    As for the account holder, he is on holiday at the moment (yep a long one).

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