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Linode Dedicated 4GB

Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 13, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,181
Faster than 59% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,216 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,476
Faster than 33% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,513 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
85,346
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 85,002 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
41 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    Newark, NJ
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 13, 2026, 11:30:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,181 1,476 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,305
71st of 150
1,761
81st of 113
Navigation
1,187
93rd of 150
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,198
64th of 150
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,296
73rd of 150
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,095
75th of 150
1,328
88th of 113
Clang
1,051
92nd of 150
1,292
102nd of 113
Text Processing
1,102
71st of 150
1,240
97th of 113
Asset Compression
1,248
72nd of 150
1,605
90th of 113
HDR
1,279
61st of 150
1,415
88th of 113
Photo Editor
680
124th of 150
1,571
87th of 113
Ray Tracer
1,184
78th of 150
1,681
96th of 113
Structure from Motion
1,303
73rd of 150
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,172
78th of 150
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,230
61st of 150
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,378
59th of 150
Single-core only
Video Player
1,406
56th of 150
Single-core only

Rank among the 150 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 43.4 GB/s 3 1.5%
Scale higher is better 29.4 GB/s 3 0.39%
Add higher is better 31.6 GB/s 3 0.451%
Triad higher is better 31.3 GB/s 3 0.323%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 221/s 3 0.232%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,453/s 3 1.04%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.12 GB/s 3 6.01%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.57 GB/s 3 3.16%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.52 GB/s 3 1.15%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 10.5 ms 3 2.87%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 188/s 3 2.51%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 20.1 ms 3 5.59%
Requests per second, average higher is better 188/s 3 2.62%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 166.5 MB/s (42,617 IOPS) 166.9 MB/s (42,729 IOPS) 333.4 MB/s (85,346 IOPS)
64K 1.32 GB/s (21,558 IOPS) 1.32 GB/s (21,671 IOPS) 2.64 GB/s (43,229 IOPS)
512K 3.27 GB/s (6,705 IOPS) 3.45 GB/s (7,062 IOPS) 6.72 GB/s (13,767 IOPS)
1M 3.07 GB/s (3,146 IOPS) 3.28 GB/s (3,355 IOPS) 6.35 GB/s (6,501 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 9,401 0.106 ms
fdatasync 5,424 0.184 ms
fsync 3,620 0.276 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,927 0.342 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,670 0.214 ms
fdatasync 4,818 0.208 ms
fsync 3,155 0.317 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,717 0.582 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,213 0.311 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,800 0.556 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,077 0.929 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 207 4.82 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 118 8.46 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,430 0.412 ms
write, close, fsync 3,391 0.295 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 483,608 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,218 0.754 ms 1.03 ms 1.43 ms 3.42 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,081 2.38 ms 4.34 ms 6.11 ms 12.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,016 8.58 ms 23.6 ms 39.3 ms 65.7 ms 0
Read only 1 13,153 0.068 ms 0.096 ms 0.259 ms 0.297 ms 0
Read only 8 33,983 0.202 ms 0.379 ms 0.569 ms 1.61 ms 0
Read only 32 34,835 0.729 ms 1.27 ms 1.93 ms 3.55 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.75 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,113 0.818 ms 1.22 ms 1.71 ms 3.48 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,790 2.73 ms 4.42 ms 5.96 ms 9.99 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,359 8.92 ms 15 ms 20.2 ms 31.5 ms 0
Read only 1 9,629 0.088 ms 0.175 ms 0.353 ms 1.01 ms 0
Read only 8 26,591 0.259 ms 0.504 ms 0.86 ms 2.2 ms 0
Read only 32 27,598 0.956 ms 1.77 ms 2.72 ms 5.24 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 18.1 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 273 5,465 3.43 ms 5.09 ms 8.58 ms 0
Read/write 8 525 10,497 15.3 ms 23.9 ms 31.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 559 11,179 54.8 ms 97.6 ms 123 ms 0
Read only 1 545 8,716 1.79 ms 2.26 ms 2.71 ms 0
Read only 8 1,084 17,337 7.04 ms 10.7 ms 13.5 ms 0
Read only 32 1,012 16,195 30.3 ms 44.2 ms 57.9 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 38,436 34,941 1.31 ms 4.22 ms 6.78 ms
1:1 set:get 38,128 19,063 1.31 ms 4.26 ms 6.4 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 383 1,454 1,922 932 ms
Express express-postgresjs 4,613 6,418 15,991 180 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,529 6,707 16,033 106 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,760 3,126 9,607 144 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,174 5,815 13,538 115 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,265 2,769 9,642 436 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,093 1,293 2,908 396 ms
Rails rails 1,867 2,560 8,448 194 ms
Laravel laravel 491 556 1,009 549 ms
Symfony symfony 638 718 1,869 503 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.42 1.11 s 1.25 s 1.31 s 0%
Shop page 1.42 1.53 s 1.7 s 1.73 s 0%
Category page 1.42 962 ms 1.53 s 1.63 s 0%
Product page 1.42 1 s 1.16 s 1.22 s 0%
Product search 1.42 877 ms 1.08 s 1.15 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.44 3.93 s 4.49 s 4.62 s 0%
Shop page 1.44 5.4 s 6.84 s 7.16 s 0%
Category page 1.44 4.72 s 6.16 s 6.9 s 0%
Product page 1.44 4.04 s 4.4 s 4.45 s 0%
Product search 1.44 3.72 s 4.26 s 4.43 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.68 1.21 s 1.46 s 1.57 s 0%
Cart 2.68 977 ms 1.16 s 1.24 s 0%
Checkout 2.68 782 ms 921 ms 999 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.69 4.21 s 5.1 s 5.39 s 0%
Cart 2.69 4.25 s 4.82 s 5.05 s 0%
Checkout 2.51 3.4 s 3.8 s 4.05 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 1.86 237 ms 312 ms 496 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.94 119 ms 155 ms 256 ms 0%
Home page 0.94 209 ms 254 ms 407 ms 0%
Categories page 0.478 241 ms 313 ms 503 ms 0%
User activity page 0.462 144 ms 159 ms 168 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.39 738 ms 1.09 s 1.76 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.19 385 ms 491 ms 529 ms 0%
Home page 1.17 649 ms 810 ms 1.11 s 0%
Categories page 0.611 755 ms 1.11 s 1.79 s 0%
User activity page 0.594 471 ms 549 ms 640 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.38 1.87 s 2.29 s 2.73 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.19 1.58 s 1.88 s 2.22 s 0%
Home page 1.18 1.73 s 2.31 s 2.57 s 0%
Categories page 0.612 1.86 s 2.11 s 2.2 s 0%
User activity page 0.612 1.59 s 1.91 s 2.12 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 53.8 87.8 ms 186 ms 244 ms 0%
Topic JSON 26.9 86.5 ms 184 ms 233 ms 0.0615%
Home page 26.9 89.3 ms 194 ms 261 ms 0%
Categories page 13.5 89.1 ms 190 ms 256 ms 0%
User activity page 13.5 263 ms 387 ms 603 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 22 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and didn't need it. The container peaked at 2,513 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 7.21 39.8 ms 51.8 ms 71.3 ms 0%
Post page 18 20.2 ms 26.4 ms 39.8 ms 0%
Tag page 3.61 26 ms 32.4 ms 41.5 ms 0%
Author page 3.6 27.1 ms 34.4 ms 47.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.6 31.4 ms 39.1 ms 45.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.32 133 ms 165 ms 222 ms 0%
Post page 20.7 85.2 ms 122 ms 157 ms 0%
Tag page 4.16 78.1 ms 109 ms 123 ms 0%
Author page 4.12 85.9 ms 119 ms 143 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.12 87.3 ms 124 ms 151 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.98 509 ms 618 ms 670 ms 0%
Post page 19.9 421 ms 526 ms 567 ms 0%
Tag page 3.97 277 ms 361 ms 413 ms 0%
Author page 4 275 ms 381 ms 419 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.95 282 ms 358 ms 392 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.85 36.8 ms 54.7 ms 70.4 ms 0%
Post editor 11.6 15.2 ms 21.3 ms 28.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.6 35.7 ms 47.8 ms 67.2 ms 0%
Member list 3.85 44.9 ms 66.6 ms 85.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.33 55.9 ms 71.6 ms 126 ms 0%
Post editor 13 30.6 ms 41.3 ms 56.2 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.1 227 ms 295 ms 356 ms 0%
Member list 4.37 69.3 ms 86.5 ms 115 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 300 MB and MySQL at 618 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.49 89.4 ms 95.3 ms 103 ms 0%
Blog index 1.49 306 ms 322 ms 330 ms 0%
Blog post 4.44 28 ms 43.2 ms 46 ms 0%
Bread page 4.46 31.1 ms 35.4 ms 42.2 ms 0%
Location page 1.49 29.7 ms 33.1 ms 34.8 ms 0%
Site search 1.48 48.6 ms 81.3 ms 84.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.99 308 ms 386 ms 458 ms 0%
Blog index 2.01 932 ms 1.25 s 1.36 s 0%
Blog post 5.96 85.8 ms 132 ms 176 ms 0%
Bread page 5.99 95.1 ms 128 ms 137 ms 0%
Location page 2.01 87.1 ms 122 ms 129 ms 0%
Site search 1.99 139 ms 275 ms 356 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.03 959 ms 1.29 s 1.38 s 0%
Blog index 2.05 2.23 s 2.69 s 2.83 s 0%
Blog post 6.04 527 ms 844 ms 958 ms 0%
Bread page 6.01 536 ms 866 ms 964 ms 0%
Location page 2.01 527 ms 801 ms 902 ms 0%
Site search 2 619 ms 896 ms 1 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.577 94.7 ms 126 ms 127 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.17 401 ms 532 ms 648 ms 0%
Page editor 1.73 193 ms 260 ms 320 ms 0%
Image library 0.577 72.6 ms 126 ms 682 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.577 40.2 ms 82.3 ms 86.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.723 372 ms 635 ms 758 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.45 1.43 s 2.04 s 2.32 s 0%
Page editor 2.19 651 ms 945 ms 1.02 s 0%
Image library 0.723 343 ms 594 ms 694 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.723 146 ms 397 ms 445 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 294 MB, Postgres at 159 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 78.2 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
78.2 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-134-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Dedicated 4GB
Product line
Dedicated CPU
Location
Newark, NJ
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.054
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 13, 2026, 11:33:50 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 13, 2026, 11:30:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 13, 2026, 11:31:58 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 13, 2026, 11:31:58 UTC
Completed
Oct 13, 2026, 13:13:43 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 13, 2026, 13:13:43 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.093
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