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Tokyo 2, JP

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Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,256
Faster than 50% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,318
Faster than 55% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
74,318
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
97 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 4GB
  • Location
    Tokyo 2, JP
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,256 2,318 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
1,384
53rd of 106
2,350
57th of 90
Navigation
1,416
44th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,146
60th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,338
53rd of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,130
56th of 106
2,252
56th of 90
Clang
1,173
48th of 106
2,298
56th of 90
Text Processing
1,076
61st of 106
2,022
61st of 90
Asset Compression
1,248
60th of 106
2,438
57th of 90
HDR
1,028
64th of 106
1,929
62nd of 90
Photo Editor
1,399
55th of 106
2,738
43rd of 90
Ray Tracer
1,305
54th of 106
2,636
53rd of 90
Structure from Motion
1,395
54th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,301
49th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,193
57th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,287
60th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,377
58th of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 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 51.8 GB/s 3 21.8%
Scale higher is better 37.2 GB/s 3 14.8%
Add higher is better 39.8 GB/s 3 17.5%
Triad higher is better 40.9 GB/s 3 18.5%

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 445/s 3 1.86%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 29,708/s 3 0.575%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.37 GB/s 3 0.872%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 6.87 GB/s 3 1.39%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.51 GB/s 3 0.406%

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 4.16 ms 3 0.587%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 474/s 3 1.06%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.87 ms 3 3.78%
Requests per second, average higher is better 469/s 3 1.04%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 145 MB/s (37,110 IOPS) 145.3 MB/s (37,208 IOPS) 290.3 MB/s (74,318 IOPS)
64K 1.54 GB/s (25,198 IOPS) 1.55 GB/s (25,330 IOPS) 3.08 GB/s (50,528 IOPS)
512K 4.66 GB/s (9,545 IOPS) 4.91 GB/s (10,052 IOPS) 9.57 GB/s (19,597 IOPS)
1M 5.51 GB/s (5,646 IOPS) 5.88 GB/s (6,022 IOPS) 11.4 GB/s (11,668 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 597 Mbps 788 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 768 Mbps 824 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.97 Gbps 3.24 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.59 Gbps 2.04 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.15 Gbps 1.37 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 11,736 0.085 ms
fdatasync 6,699 0.149 ms
fsync 4,672 0.214 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,660 0.215 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,588 0.179 ms
fdatasync 6,267 0.16 ms
fsync 4,673 0.214 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,789 0.359 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 5,073 0.197 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,518 0.397 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,421 0.704 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 473 2.12 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 241 4.15 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 4,769 0.21 ms
write, close, fsync 4,501 0.222 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 533,458 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 1,757 0.551 ms 0.683 ms 0.918 ms 2.14 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,234 1.78 ms 3.01 ms 3.95 ms 5.96 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,279 6.01 ms 16.7 ms 27.7 ms 44.6 ms 0
Read only 1 18,744 0.051 ms 0.067 ms 0.078 ms 0.222 ms 0
Read only 8 47,569 0.15 ms 0.238 ms 0.295 ms 0.604 ms 0
Read only 32 49,335 0.528 ms 0.82 ms 1.14 ms 2.86 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.45 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 1,488 0.621 ms 0.99 ms 1.29 ms 4.12 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,974 1.88 ms 2.96 ms 4.49 ms 15.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,886 6.03 ms 9.94 ms 14.2 ms 43.9 ms 0
Read only 1 14,132 0.061 ms 0.088 ms 0.172 ms 0.805 ms 0
Read only 8 37,543 0.192 ms 0.314 ms 0.401 ms 1.3 ms 0
Read only 32 40,499 0.691 ms 1.02 ms 1.42 ms 3.1 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 15.1 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 1 376 7,523 2.52 ms 3.49 ms 5.77 ms 0
Read/write 8 721 14,429 11 ms 17.3 ms 21.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 828 16,563 37.6 ms 61.1 ms 78.6 ms 0
Read only 1 784 12,552 1.25 ms 1.44 ms 1.73 ms 0
Read only 8 1,635 26,162 4.65 ms 7.04 ms 7.99 ms 0
Read only 32 1,557 24,916 20 ms 26.2 ms 29.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 54,084 49,166 0.743 ms 3.26 ms 4.99 ms
1:1 set:get 52,747 26,373 0.647 ms 3.33 ms 5.09 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 668 2,420 3,293 580 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,663 11,085 30,688 63.7 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,562 11,656 34,332 57.9 ms
NestJS nestjs 4,980 5,699 18,098 89.6 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,894 10,688 28,481 71 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,885 4,734 17,018 294 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,894 2,183 4,748 245 ms
Rails rails 3,096 4,205 13,769 164 ms
Laravel laravel 853 915 1,704 399 ms
Symfony symfony 1,083 1,200 3,241 260 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 2.28 689 ms 753 ms 780 ms 0%
Shop page 2.28 934 ms 1.03 s 1.12 s 0%
Category page 2.28 596 ms 920 ms 964 ms 0%
Product page 2.28 653 ms 731 ms 833 ms 0%
Product search 2.28 565 ms 652 ms 685 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.29 2.55 s 2.86 s 2.93 s 0%
Shop page 2.29 3.36 s 3.86 s 4.02 s 0%
Category page 2.29 2.95 s 3.5 s 3.62 s 0%
Product page 2.29 2.59 s 2.76 s 2.82 s 0%
Product search 2.29 2.38 s 2.62 s 2.7 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.38 740 ms 880 ms 917 ms 0%
Cart 4.38 607 ms 727 ms 756 ms 0%
Checkout 4.38 474 ms 575 ms 602 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.41 2.44 s 2.94 s 3.04 s 0%
Cart 4.41 2.62 s 2.96 s 3.05 s 0%
Checkout 4.41 2.08 s 2.37 s 2.49 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 70 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 2.12 205 ms 288 ms 509 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.08 103 ms 158 ms 195 ms 0%
Home page 1.08 183 ms 218 ms 308 ms 0%
Categories page 0.529 208 ms 284 ms 305 ms 0%
User activity page 0.529 122 ms 239 ms 372 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.96 436 ms 715 ms 1.05 s 0%
Topic JSON 2 225 ms 355 ms 493 ms 0%
Home page 1.98 383 ms 558 ms 589 ms 0%
Categories page 1.02 463 ms 713 ms 773 ms 0%
User activity page 0.991 264 ms 529 ms 906 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.71 1.61 s 1.98 s 2.23 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.85 1.4 s 1.78 s 1.85 s 0%
Home page 1.86 1.57 s 2.03 s 2.18 s 0%
Categories page 0.924 1.6 s 1.98 s 2.11 s 0%
User activity page 0.956 1.45 s 1.74 s 1.9 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 78.6 58.5 ms 137 ms 193 ms 0%
Topic JSON 39.3 57.1 ms 131 ms 184 ms 0%
Home page 39.3 60.3 ms 141 ms 217 ms 0%
Categories page 19.6 55.8 ms 132 ms 211 ms 0%
User activity page 19.6 179 ms 308 ms 437 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 21 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 2,139 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.73 33.9 ms 41.1 ms 56.5 ms 0%
Post page 21.8 16.4 ms 21.1 ms 29 ms 0%
Tag page 4.36 21.7 ms 27 ms 33.1 ms 0%
Author page 4.36 22.9 ms 27.2 ms 33.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.35 27.4 ms 33.6 ms 40 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 10.4 105 ms 145 ms 171 ms 0%
Post page 25.9 67.9 ms 97.5 ms 122 ms 0%
Tag page 5.18 62.1 ms 92.2 ms 113 ms 0%
Author page 5.19 68.2 ms 97.5 ms 142 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.19 71.9 ms 104 ms 149 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.5 388 ms 469 ms 517 ms 0%
Post page 26.2 317 ms 405 ms 448 ms 0%
Tag page 5.21 213 ms 292 ms 324 ms 0%
Author page 5.23 209 ms 279 ms 311 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.21 215 ms 286 ms 325 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 5.3 29.7 ms 37.1 ms 48.9 ms 0%
Post editor 15.9 10.7 ms 14.4 ms 19.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15.9 25.9 ms 32.7 ms 39.7 ms 0%
Member list 5.3 37.1 ms 44.5 ms 53.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 6.48 40.1 ms 48.5 ms 80.6 ms 0%
Post editor 19.5 19 ms 24.7 ms 31.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 19.6 155 ms 200 ms 257 ms 0%
Member list 6.53 47.9 ms 56.3 ms 69.7 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 331 MB and MySQL at 623 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.85 71.1 ms 81.1 ms 97.1 ms 0%
Blog index 1.85 241 ms 261 ms 272 ms 0%
Blog post 5.53 23 ms 36.5 ms 42.5 ms 0%
Bread page 5.53 25.5 ms 30.7 ms 32.7 ms 0%
Location page 1.85 24.5 ms 28.8 ms 33.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.85 39.4 ms 66.4 ms 73.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.07 185 ms 264 ms 319 ms 0%
Blog index 3.09 603 ms 877 ms 951 ms 0%
Blog post 9.21 52.3 ms 90 ms 117 ms 0%
Bread page 9.25 58.1 ms 88.6 ms 106 ms 0%
Location page 3.1 56.9 ms 82.2 ms 92.3 ms 0%
Site search 3.07 83.1 ms 173 ms 203 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.54 513 ms 711 ms 752 ms 0%
Blog index 3.62 1.28 s 1.52 s 1.69 s 0%
Blog post 10.7 298 ms 498 ms 706 ms 0%
Bread page 10.7 300 ms 490 ms 704 ms 0%
Location page 3.57 286 ms 500 ms 777 ms 0%
Site search 3.56 368 ms 595 ms 735 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.707 76.5 ms 100 ms 150 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.43 332 ms 435 ms 478 ms 0%
Page editor 2.12 157 ms 196 ms 276 ms 0%
Image library 0.707 58.8 ms 69.7 ms 510 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.707 34.5 ms 79 ms 83.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.15 285 ms 585 ms 668 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.36 805 ms 1.32 s 1.45 s 0%
Page editor 3.51 370 ms 694 ms 763 ms 0%
Image library 1.17 229 ms 477 ms 550 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.15 97.4 ms 275 ms 485 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 298 MB, Postgres at 161 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared 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 7642 48-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2300 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
Linode 4GB
Product line
Shared CPU
Location
Tokyo 2, JP
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 12, 2026, 04:08:47 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
Server created
Oct 12, 2026, 04:08:41 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 04:08:41 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 05:47:29 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 05:47:29 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.060
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