# Linode Linode 4GB

[Newark, NJ](https://rackcensus.com/locations/newark-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Newark")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 10, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

967

Faster than 30% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,720

Faster than 38% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

56,046

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$24.00

72 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[Linode](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/linode-benchmarks)[Linode 4GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/jqz5x2-linode-linode-4gb-benchmarks?location=us-east)

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Provider

Linode

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Plan

Linode 4GB

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Location

Newark, NJ

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

80 GB SSD

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Network

4 Gbps

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OS image

linode/ubuntu24.04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 10, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC

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## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 967 | 1,720 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/599922) |

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 | 1,16142nd of 71 | 1,71049th of 63 |
| Navigation | 1,11355th of 71 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 86861st of 71 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 99757th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 99643rd of 71 | 1,61449th of 63 |
| Clang | 92459th of 71 | 1,82948th of 63 |
| Text Processing | 83361st of 71 | 1,69348th of 63 |
| Asset Compression | 1,10748th of 71 | 1,92648th of 63 |
| HDR | 78162nd of 71 | 1,68547th of 63 |
| Photo Editor | 44970th of 71 | 1,42953rd of 63 |
| Ray Tracer | 97653rd of 71 | 1,93748th of 63 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,09855th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,19638th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,03645th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,20145th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,10446th of 71 | Single-core only |

Rank among the 71 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 | 37.2 GB/s | 3 | 13.4% |
| Scale higher is better | 27.9 GB/s | 3 | 12.9% |
| Add higher is better | 30.8 GB/s | 3 | 18.4% |
| Triad higher is better | 30.5 GB/s | 3 | 18.4% |

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 | 397/s | 3 | 13.1% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 27,305/s | 3 | 4.34% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 1.31 GB/s | 3 | 1.3% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 6.34 GB/s | 3 | 3.08% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 3.35 GB/s | 3 | 8.48% |

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 | 4.44 ms | 3 | 2.17% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 442/s | 3 | 1.51% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 23 ms | 3 | 42.9% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 384/s | 3 | 1.27% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 109.3 MB/s (27,986 IOPS) | 109.6 MB/s (28,060 IOPS) | 218.9 MB/s (56,046 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.1 GB/s (18,086 IOPS) | 1.11 GB/s (18,181 IOPS) | 2.21 GB/s (36,267 IOPS) |
| 512K | 1.95 GB/s (3,997 IOPS) | 2.06 GB/s (4,210 IOPS) | 4.01 GB/s (8,207 IOPS) |
| 1M | 2.17 GB/s (2,221 IOPS) | 2.31 GB/s (2,369 IOPS) | 4.48 GB/s (4,590 IOPS) |

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

## Network

### IPv4 transfer speed

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| Target | Protocol | Send | Receive |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clouvider, London, UK (10G) | IPv4 | 2.47 Gbps | 2.58 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 3.02 Gbps | 3.15 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 793 Mbps | 877 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.13 Gbps | 3.41 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 4.41 Gbps | 7.36 Gbps |

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

## Datastores

### PostgreSQL

#### fsync speed (pg\_test\_fsync)

| Method | Operations per second | Time per operation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One 8 kB write |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 9,242 | 0.108 ms |
| fdatasync | 5,882 | 0.17 ms |
| fsync | 3,226 | 0.31 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 2,488 | 0.402 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 4,519 | 0.221 ms |
| fdatasync | 4,739 | 0.211 ms |
| fsync | 2,863 | 0.349 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 1,514 | 0.661 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
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| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 2,833 | 0.353 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 1,677 | 0.596 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 895 | 1.12 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 341 | 2.93 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 145 | 6.91 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 2,893 | 0.346 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 2,959 | 0.338 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 492,205 | 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 | 1,128 | 0.783 ms | 1.33 ms | 3.18 ms | 10.4 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,970 | 2.27 ms | 4.73 ms | 10.8 ms | 47.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,864 | 8.19 ms | 27.7 ms | 50.5 ms | 124 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 14,851 | 0.063 ms | 0.098 ms | 0.129 ms | 0.259 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 33,043 | 0.209 ms | 0.365 ms | 0.489 ms | 2.23 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 35,004 | 0.718 ms | 1.43 ms | 2.09 ms | 8.22 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2 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 | 1,003 | 0.87 ms | 1.49 ms | 3.31 ms | 11.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,527 | 2.72 ms | 5.36 ms | 11.9 ms | 42 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 3,012 | 9.42 ms | 18.8 ms | 30.4 ms | 66.1 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 8,194 | 0.097 ms | 0.189 ms | 0.604 ms | 2.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 24,729 | 0.284 ms | 0.51 ms | 0.812 ms | 2.64 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 26,307 | 1 ms | 2.06 ms | 3.08 ms | 13 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 21.1 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 | 228 | 4,565 | 3.89 ms | 7.43 ms | 13 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 527 | 10,547 | 14.7 ms | 24.8 ms | 38.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 562 | 11,231 | 53.9 ms | 99.3 ms | 137 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 564 | 9,020 | 1.7 ms | 2.48 ms | 4.57 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,118 | 17,883 | 6.55 ms | 11 ms | 16.1 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,025 | 16,405 | 29.2 ms | 41.9 ms | 57.9 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.2 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 42,465 | 38,604 | 1.01 ms | 4.96 ms | 16.5 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 41,661 | 20,830 | 1.18 ms | 4.67 ms | 11.8 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 | 441 | 1,525 | 2,591 | 945 ms |
| Express express-postgresjs | 6,362 | 8,873 | 22,108 | 325 ms |
| Fastify fastify-postgres | 6,042 | 7,879 | 21,562 | 81.1 ms |
| NestJS nestjs | 3,385 | 3,602 | 12,505 | 130 ms |
| Nuxt nuxt | 4,885 | 7,854 | 20,829 | 549 ms |
| FastAPI fastapi | 2,474 | 3,368 | 13,773 | 525 ms |
| Django django-postgresql | 1,474 | 1,560 | 3,930 | 250 ms |
| Rails rails | 2,126 | 2,779 | 9,160 | 221 ms |
| Laravel laravel | 574 | 562 | 1,120 | 827 ms |
| Symfony symfony | 716 | 768 | 2,588 | 666 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 | 1.61 | 940 ms | 1.25 s | 1.48 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.61 | 1.26 s | 1.84 s | 2.03 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.61 | 851 ms | 1.35 s | 1.54 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.61 | 868 ms | 1.22 s | 1.4 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.61 | 736 ms | 1.01 s | 1.05 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
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| Home page | 1.79 | 3.49 s | 3.93 s | 4.01 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.79 | 4.56 s | 5.66 s | 6.15 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.64 | 4.18 s | 5.47 s | 5.55 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.36 | 3.71 s | 4.22 s | 4.36 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.36 | 3.36 s | 3.77 s | 3.86 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.81 | 1.15 s | 1.44 s | 1.69 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.81 | 904 ms | 1.16 s | 1.53 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.81 | 695 ms | 981 ms | 1.15 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 3.02 | 3.45 s | 4.54 s | 4.62 s | 0% |
| Cart | 3.02 | 3.91 s | 4.61 s | 4.84 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 3.02 | 2.85 s | 3.67 s | 4.04 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 2.5% 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 7542 32-Core Processor

**CPU cores:** 2

**CPU frequency:** 2900 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:** 2.5% 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:** Linode 4GB

**Product line:** Shared CPU

**Location:** Newark, NJ

**vCPU:** 2 shared 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:** $24.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.036

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 10, 2026, 19:58:02 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 10, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 10, 2026, 19:56:55 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 10, 2026, 21:19:02 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 10, 2026, 21:19:02 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.050

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 753 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 230 MB/s at 4k, 4.81 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 2.47 Gbit/s send, 3.15 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 967 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,720 9 of 9Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

Finish Results saved 1 of 1Done

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