Ramnode Sustained CPU Endurance Run
KVM Premium 2GB - Nov 08 2019

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The sustained CPU endurance test runs a cpu intensive task in a loop for 24 hours. As maxing out the cpu might be considered abusive, the tests aims to use no more than 50% of each cpu core on the VPS.

The purpose of this type of test is

  • first to evaluate the speed to the VPS,
  • second to evaluate the stability over time of the cpu available to the VPS
  • and third to detect VPS where the CPU is throttled and the performance goes down over time after cpu utilization goes over a threshold the provider considers excessive for a particular plan.

The performance is measured at regular intervals in terms of tasks executed per hour, amount of idle cpu and amount of "cpu steal".

Provider: Ramnode
Plan: KVM Premium 2GB
Number of CPU cores: 1
Burstable CPU resources: no
CPU type: Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)


DescriptionValue
Target CPU usage Overall CPU that the endurance test tries to use across all CPU cores on the VM. 50%
Average iterations per hour Average number of tasks executed per hour. It represents how much work the VPS was able to achieve per hour. Higher numbers are better. 3354
Coefficient of variation iterations per hour This represents the dispersion of the number of tasks per hour. It's the standard deviation divided by the mean number of tasks per hour. It's an indicator on stability of the performance of the VPS. A low standard deviation means the VPS speed stayed close to constant. A high standard deviation means performance varied significantly during the test. 8.80%
Average CPU idle Average percentage of CPU that was idle during the test. This number should be close to 50% unless the CPU is being throttled like in burstable VPS plans. 48.1%
Min CPU idle Minimum percentage of CPU idle during the test. 44.5%
Average CPU steal Average percentage of CPU steal during the test. Lower is better. 0.08%
Max CPU steal Maximum percentage of CPU steal during the test. 0.29%


Number of tasks completed per hour




Date Number of iterations per hour CPU Idle % CPU Steal %
November 12, 2019 02:00 UTC 3417 58.71 0.05
November 12, 2019 00:00 UTC 3414 48.48 0.07
November 11, 2019 22:00 UTC 3417 48.1 0.07
November 11, 2019 20:00 UTC 3422 48.03 0.07
November 11, 2019 18:00 UTC 3409 48.01 0.07
November 11, 2019 16:00 UTC 3310 47.76 0.11
November 11, 2019 14:00 UTC 3378 47.94 0.07
November 11, 2019 12:00 UTC 3370 47.92 0.07
November 11, 2019 10:00 UTC 3397 47.9 0.08
November 11, 2019 08:00 UTC 3405 47.36 0.08
November 11, 2019 06:00 UTC 3398 47.18 0.08
November 11, 2019 04:00 UTC 3383 47.68 0.08
November 11, 2019 02:00 UTC 3157 47.33 0.19

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