Togglebox Sustained CPU Endurance Run
16GB 8 cores - Apr 27 2024

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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: Togglebox
Plan: 16GB 8 cores
Number of CPU cores: 8
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. 9204
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. 0.64%
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. 49.7%
Min CPU idle Minimum percentage of CPU idle during the test. 49.2%
Average CPU steal Average percentage of CPU steal during the test. Lower is better. 0.04%
Max CPU steal Maximum percentage of CPU steal during the test. 0.07%


Number of tasks completed per hour




Date Number of iterations per hour CPU Idle % CPU Steal %
April 28, 2024 18:00 UTC 9230 57.54 0.03
April 28, 2024 16:00 UTC 9208 49.59 0.03
April 28, 2024 14:00 UTC 9202 49.7 0.04
April 28, 2024 12:00 UTC 9194 49.63 0.04
April 28, 2024 10:00 UTC 9197 49.71 0.04
April 28, 2024 08:00 UTC 9222 49.67 0.04
April 28, 2024 06:00 UTC 9221 49.68 0.04
April 28, 2024 04:00 UTC 9200 49.72 0.04
April 28, 2024 02:00 UTC 9249 49.69 0.04
April 28, 2024 00:00 UTC 9214 49.65 0.04
April 27, 2024 22:00 UTC 9219 49.64 0.04
April 27, 2024 20:00 UTC 9201 49.72 0.04
April 27, 2024 18:00 UTC 9082 49.65 0.05

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