# Gcore Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Manassas

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 13, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

986

Faster than 43% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,817

Faster than 44% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

1,203

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

€29.40 EUR

53 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[Gcore](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/gcore-benchmarks)[Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/f5uafv-gcore-standard-a1-2-vcpu-4-gb-benchmarks?location=14)

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Provider

Gcore

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Plan

Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB

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Location

Manassas

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

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Network

1 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24.04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:00 UTC

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## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 986 | 1,817 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/621525) |

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

## Memory, TLS and scheduler

### Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

| Test | Result | Runs | Spread |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Copy higher is better | 47.7 GB/s | 3 | 0.815% |
| Scale higher is better | 47.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.56% |
| Add higher is better | 42.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.45% |
| Triad higher is better | 42.4 GB/s | 3 | 0.321% |

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 | 97.2/s | 3 | 0.475% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 7,845/s | 3 | 1.7% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 1.45 GB/s | 3 | 0.304% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 4.69 GB/s | 3 | 0.145% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.72 GB/s | 3 | 0.134% |

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 | 15 ms | 3 | 0% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 132/s | 3 | 0% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 22.2 ms | 3 | 0.44% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 132/s | 3 | 0.0531% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 2.3 MB/s (599 IOPS) | 2.4 MB/s (604 IOPS) | 4.7 MB/s (1,203 IOPS) |
| 64K | 37.2 MB/s (595 IOPS) | 38.3 MB/s (612 IOPS) | 75.5 MB/s (1,207 IOPS) |
| 512K | 48.4 MB/s (96 IOPS) | 52.6 MB/s (105 IOPS) | 101 MB/s (201 IOPS) |
| 1M | 47.5 MB/s (47 IOPS) | 53 MB/s (53 IOPS) | 100.5 MB/s (100 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 | 1.39 Gbps | 1.38 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.41 Gbps | 1.36 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 819 Mbps | 978 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.44 Gbps | 1.41 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.51 Gbps | 1.45 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 | 340 | 2.95 ms |
| fdatasync | 341 | 2.93 ms |
| fsync | 116 | 8.61 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 102 | 9.85 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 176 | 5.67 ms |
| fdatasync | 314 | 3.19 ms |
| fsync | 119 | 8.39 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 54 | 18.5 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 95.2 | 10.5 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 54.7 | 18.3 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 27.5 | 36.4 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 12.1 | 82.8 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 7.72 | 129 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 128 | 7.8 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 109 | 9.19 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 1,006,864 | 0.001 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 | 222 | 3.5 ms | 7.96 ms | 12.2 ms | 52.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 784 | 7.66 ms | 24 ms | 43.5 ms | 160 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 1,121 | 18.6 ms | 85.3 ms | 173 ms | 336 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 20,132 | 0.044 ms | 0.076 ms | 0.105 ms | 0.226 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 33,617 | 0.219 ms | 0.357 ms | 0.433 ms | 0.885 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 34,394 | 0.845 ms | 1.3 ms | 1.73 ms | 3.24 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.04 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 | 235 | 3.54 ms | 6.88 ms | 16.9 ms | 55.6 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 576 | 6.56 ms | 59.8 ms | 160 ms | 286 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 681 | 17 ms | 162 ms | 283 ms | 458 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 1,907 | 0.144 ms | 2.28 ms | 5.34 ms | 12.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 18,617 | 0.284 ms | 0.529 ms | 1.18 ms | 25.4 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 25,339 | 1.16 ms | 1.9 ms | 2.45 ms | 4.24 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 60.7 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 | 36.5 | 730 | 18.6 ms | 60 ms | 240 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 92.6 | 1,851 | 39.7 ms | 320 ms | 451 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 94.9 | 1,898 | 197 ms | 580 ms | 3.64 s | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 610 | 9,758 | 1.37 ms | 2.81 ms | 4.1 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,124 | 17,986 | 7.04 ms | 9.39 ms | 11 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,014 | 16,220 | 31.4 ms | 40.4 ms | 45 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 37.9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 60,878 | 55,343 | 0.767 ms | 2.9 ms | 4.61 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 60,813 | 30,406 | 0.775 ms | 2.91 ms | 4.58 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 | 492 | 1,675 | 2,337 | 1.39 s |
| Express express-postgresjs | 5,743 | 7,892 | 18,591 | 239 ms |
| Fastify fastify-postgres | 5,735 | 8,404 | 19,285 | 327 ms |
| NestJS nestjs | 3,100 | 3,445 | 10,666 | 141 ms |
| Nuxt nuxt | 4,912 | 7,106 | 15,819 | 234 ms |
| FastAPI fastapi | 2,738 | 3,388 | 18,470 | 319 ms |
| Django django-postgresql | 933 | 1,039 | 2,327 | 549 ms |
| Rails rails | 1,112 | 1,566 | 6,979 | 335 ms |
| Laravel laravel | 516 | 569 | 1,066 | 539 ms |
| Symfony symfony | 731 | 785 | 2,090 | 388 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 | 1.72 | 920 ms | 1 s | 1.07 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.72 | 1.25 s | 1.37 s | 1.43 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.72 | 783 ms | 1.26 s | 1.28 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.72 | 834 ms | 961 ms | 1.02 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.72 | 747 ms | 844 ms | 876 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.81 | 3.26 s | 3.67 s | 3.83 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.81 | 4.38 s | 4.9 s | 4.95 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.81 | 3.85 s | 4.51 s | 4.62 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.81 | 3.36 s | 3.61 s | 3.76 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.47 | 3.1 s | 3.34 s | 3.42 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 3.34 | 975 ms | 1.11 s | 1.17 s | 0% |
| Cart | 3.34 | 789 ms | 908 ms | 949 ms | 0% |
| Checkout | 3.34 | 599 ms | 686 ms | 719 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 3.37 | 3.22 s | 3.89 s | 4.09 s | 0% |
| Cart | 3.37 | 3.41 s | 3.72 s | 3.87 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 3.37 | 2.67 s | 3.06 s | 3.15 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 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 | 1.43 | 304 ms | 463 ms | 669 ms | 0% |
| Topic JSON | 0.725 | 153 ms | 171 ms | 316 ms | 0% |
| Home page | 0.725 | 275 ms | 404 ms | 569 ms | 0% |
| Categories page | 0.362 | 319 ms | 361 ms | 455 ms | 0% |
| User activity page | 0.362 | 197 ms | 275 ms | 422 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Topic page | 3.21 | 546 ms | 753 ms | 1.23 s | 0% |
| Topic JSON | 1.6 | 286 ms | 365 ms | 646 ms | 0% |
| Home page | 1.58 | 478 ms | 742 ms | 1.23 s | 0% |
| Categories page | 0.823 | 575 ms | 971 ms | 1.36 s | 0% |
| User activity page | 0.79 | 343 ms | 518 ms | 751 ms | 0% |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Topic page | 3.19 | 1.61 s | 2.03 s | 2.48 s | 0% |
| Topic JSON | 1.61 | 1.37 s | 1.72 s | 1.85 s | 0% |
| Home page | 1.61 | 1.58 s | 2.03 s | 2.16 s | 0% |
| Categories page | 0.821 | 1.61 s | 2.14 s | 2.28 s | 0% |
| User activity page | 0.805 | 1.48 s | 1.87 s | 2.15 s | 0% |

#### Anonymous

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Topic page | 58.5 | 79.1 ms | 185 ms | 235 ms | 0% |
| Topic JSON | 29.2 | 72.6 ms | 176 ms | 220 ms | 0% |
| Home page | 29.2 | 79.8 ms | 195 ms | 241 ms | 0% |
| Categories page | 14.6 | 74.9 ms | 180 ms | 252 ms | 0% |
| User activity page | 14.7 | 240 ms | 366 ms | 585 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 2,007 MB.

### Ghost

#### Readers

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Home page | 6.18 | 45.9 ms | 52.2 ms | 70.3 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 15.4 | 24.7 ms | 29.4 ms | 38.9 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 3.1 | 30.5 ms | 35.3 ms | 38.5 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 3.08 | 30.9 ms | 36.2 ms | 45.8 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 3.08 | 39.2 ms | 47.2 ms | 52.2 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 8.13 | 133 ms | 166 ms | 206 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 20.3 | 87.6 ms | 126 ms | 149 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 4.06 | 83 ms | 113 ms | 132 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 4.06 | 85.8 ms | 114 ms | 120 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 4.06 | 95.5 ms | 131 ms | 143 ms | 0% |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 8.04 | 495 ms | 590 ms | 630 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 20.1 | 421 ms | 520 ms | 568 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 4.03 | 273 ms | 341 ms | 394 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 4 | 274 ms | 359 ms | 402 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 4 | 279 ms | 362 ms | 403 ms | 0% |

#### Staff in Ghost Admin

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Post list | 2.22 | 46.4 ms | 56.3 ms | 68.7 ms | 0% |
| Post editor | 6.69 | 19.1 ms | 24.9 ms | 29.8 ms | 0% |
| Saving a draft | 6.69 | 69.3 ms | 158 ms | 744 ms | 0% |
| Member list | 2.24 | 58.6 ms | 73.1 ms | 116 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Post list | 3.36 | 54.6 ms | 64.9 ms | 73.8 ms | 0% |
| Post editor | 10.1 | 22.1 ms | 32.4 ms | 50.3 ms | 0% |
| Saving a draft | 10.2 | 297 ms | 470 ms | 702 ms | 0% |
| Member list | 3.37 | 64.2 ms | 73.2 ms | 96.1 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 307 MB and MySQL at 620 MB.

### Wagtail

#### Visitors

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.14 | 111 ms | 123 ms | 126 ms | 0% |
| Blog index | 1.14 | 401 ms | 443 ms | 457 ms | 0% |
| Blog post | 3.39 | 37.6 ms | 52.8 ms | 60 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 3.41 | 41 ms | 47.4 ms | 49.2 ms | 0% |
| Location page | 1.14 | 39.1 ms | 45.2 ms | 47.4 ms | 0% |
| Site search | 1.13 | 73 ms | 118 ms | 122 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.93 | 291 ms | 401 ms | 447 ms | 0% |
| Blog index | 1.95 | 1.02 s | 1.43 s | 1.57 s | 0% |
| Blog post | 5.79 | 78.3 ms | 141 ms | 174 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 5.84 | 89.1 ms | 140 ms | 165 ms | 0% |
| Location page | 1.98 | 77.4 ms | 136 ms | 212 ms | 0% |
| Site search | 1.91 | 126 ms | 258 ms | 305 ms | 0% |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.91 | 982 ms | 1.24 s | 1.33 s | 0% |
| Blog index | 1.95 | 2.55 s | 2.99 s | 3.19 s | 0% |
| Blog post | 5.67 | 532 ms | 873 ms | 981 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 5.7 | 556 ms | 851 ms | 1.02 s | 0% |
| Location page | 1.94 | 555 ms | 902 ms | 1.18 s | 0% |
| Site search | 1.87 | 651 ms | 899 ms | 950 ms | 0% |

#### Editors in the Wagtail admin

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Admin dashboard | 0.594 | 112 ms | 129 ms | 149 ms | 0% |
| Page explorer | 1.19 | 371 ms | 453 ms | 540 ms | 0% |
| Page editor | 1.78 | 192 ms | 313 ms | 388 ms | 0% |
| Image library | 0.594 | 77.1 ms | 87 ms | 721 ms | 0% |
| Admin page search | 0.594 | 47.3 ms | 95.7 ms | 102 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Admin dashboard | 0.954 | 307 ms | 619 ms | 758 ms | 0% |
| Page explorer | 1.94 | 871 ms | 1.68 s | 1.8 s | 0% |
| Page editor | 2.91 | 440 ms | 970 ms | 1.25 s | 0% |
| Image library | 0.971 | 229 ms | 493 ms | 572 ms | 0% |
| Admin page search | 0.954 | 112 ms | 352 ms | 479 ms | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 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 296 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 0.8% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 4 GB | 3.8 GiB |
| Storage | | 19.3 GiB |
| Architecture | arm64 | arm64 |
| Virtualization | KVM | KVM |

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

## Detected hardware

**CPU model:** Neoverse-N1

**CPU cores:** 2

**CPU frequency:** Unknown

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** No

**RAM reported:** 3.8 GiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 19.3 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** KVM

**CPU steal:** 0.8% of busy CPU time stolen

**Distro:** Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

**Kernel:** 6.8.0-90-generic

**Architecture:** arm64

**IPv4 reachable:** Yes

**IPv6 reachable:** Yes

## Advertised at test time

**Plan:** Standard A1 2 vCPU / 4 GB

**Product line:** Standard A1

**Location:** Manassas

**vCPU:** 2 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** arm64

**RAM:** 4 GB

**Storage:**

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** 1 Gbps

**Transfer:** Unmetered

**Port 25:** Unknown

**Monthly price at test time:** €29.40 EUR

**Hourly price at test time:** €0.041 EUR

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

**Ran at:** Oct 13, 2026, 11:40:07 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:52 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 13, 2026, 11:38:53 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 13, 2026, 13:42:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 13, 2026, 13:42:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** €0.084 EUR

Tests 43 of 43 done Live output 784 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 4.9 MB/s at 4k, 105 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.41 Gbit/s send, 1.38 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 986 1 of 1Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,817 1 of 1Done

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 18 of 18Done

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