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Linode Dedicated 4GB

Chicago, IL

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 13, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,061
Faster than 57% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,377
Faster than 26% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
76,869
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
38 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    Chicago, IL
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 13, 2026, 12:24:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,061 1,377 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
1,077
93rd of 150
1,348
93rd of 113
Navigation
980
124th of 150
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,034
90th of 150
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,170
86th of 150
Single-core only
Photo Library
943
91st of 150
1,197
97th of 113
Clang
984
100th of 150
1,319
101st of 113
Text Processing
903
109th of 150
1,238
98th of 113
Asset Compression
1,139
90th of 150
1,530
95th of 113
HDR
842
106th of 150
1,171
96th of 113
Photo Editor
793
116th of 150
1,579
86th of 113
Ray Tracer
1,254
66th of 150
1,735
92nd of 113
Structure from Motion
1,151
94th of 150
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,135
80th of 150
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,118
84th of 150
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,287
70th of 150
Single-core only
Video Player
1,345
68th 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 44.7 GB/s 3 1.47%
Scale higher is better 30 GB/s 3 0.273%
Add higher is better 32.3 GB/s 3 0.72%
Triad higher is better 32.2 GB/s 3 0.464%

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 0.333%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,300/s 3 1.06%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.15 GB/s 3 0.614%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.64 GB/s 3 0.137%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.53 GB/s 3 0.379%

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 10.4 ms 3 1.1%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 190/s 3 1.21%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 18.3 ms 3 3.16%
Requests per second, average higher is better 190/s 3 0.823%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 149.9 MB/s (38,384 IOPS) 150.3 MB/s (38,485 IOPS) 300.3 MB/s (76,869 IOPS)
64K 1.24 GB/s (20,299 IOPS) 1.25 GB/s (20,406 IOPS) 2.48 GB/s (40,705 IOPS)
512K 2.32 GB/s (4,750 IOPS) 2.44 GB/s (5,002 IOPS) 4.76 GB/s (9,752 IOPS)
1M 2.47 GB/s (2,531 IOPS) 2.64 GB/s (2,699 IOPS) 5.11 GB/s (5,230 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 1.94 Gbps 2.1 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.83 Gbps 2.13 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 559 Mbps 981 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.96 Gbps 963 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 3.82 Gbps 9.27 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 1,837 0.544 ms
fdatasync 3,888 0.257 ms
fsync 2,999 0.333 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,242 0.308 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,051 0.247 ms
fdatasync 3,956 0.253 ms
fsync 2,695 0.371 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,619 0.618 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,233 0.309 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,619 0.618 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 194 5.16 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 180 5.56 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 132 7.58 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,841 0.352 ms
write, close, fsync 2,827 0.354 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 356,699 0.003 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 1,020 0.904 ms 1.38 ms 1.73 ms 3.65 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,664 2.69 ms 5.16 ms 7.75 ms 13.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,777 8.97 ms 27.2 ms 45.3 ms 81.3 ms 0
Read only 1 12,236 0.075 ms 0.103 ms 0.255 ms 0.305 ms 0
Read only 8 31,000 0.224 ms 0.396 ms 0.566 ms 1.34 ms 0
Read only 32 31,325 0.821 ms 1.37 ms 1.99 ms 3.53 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) 1 948 0.959 ms 1.54 ms 2 ms 3.43 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,592 2.94 ms 4.74 ms 6.38 ms 10.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,027 9.94 ms 16.2 ms 21.7 ms 35.7 ms 0
Read only 1 8,362 0.098 ms 0.222 ms 0.48 ms 1.19 ms 0
Read only 8 24,459 0.285 ms 0.525 ms 0.91 ms 2.19 ms 0
Read only 32 24,986 1.08 ms 1.78 ms 2.63 ms 4.56 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 20.5 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 1 213 4,255 4.18 ms 7.7 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 467 9,347 17.3 ms 26.2 ms 33.7 ms 0
Read/write 32 515 10,305 61.1 ms 101 ms 130 ms 0
Read only 1 478 7,654 1.96 ms 2.57 ms 3.08 ms 0
Read only 8 947 15,160 8.13 ms 11.7 ms 13.7 ms 0
Read only 32 927 14,828 33.7 ms 44.2 ms 50.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 35,693 32,448 1.54 ms 4.48 ms 6.3 ms
1:1 set:get 34,609 17,304 1.6 ms 4.54 ms 6.78 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 368 1,329 1,771 1.01 s
Express express-postgresjs 4,488 6,215 14,213 288 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,389 6,536 14,905 107 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,604 2,943 8,331 152 ms
Nuxt nuxt 3,891 5,578 12,573 122 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,077 2,599 8,338 618 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,043 1,197 2,480 320 ms
Rails rails 1,771 2,402 7,710 202 ms
Laravel laravel 460 493 884 592 ms
Symfony symfony 602 656 1,693 453 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 1.29 1.23 s 1.39 s 1.42 s 0%
Shop page 1.29 1.66 s 1.83 s 1.93 s 0%
Category page 1.29 1.05 s 1.62 s 1.7 s 0%
Product page 1.29 1.11 s 1.29 s 1.37 s 0%
Product search 1.29 1 s 1.18 s 1.21 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.44 s 5.05 s 5.19 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 5.89 s 6.67 s 6.71 s 0%
Category page 1.36 5.17 s 6.17 s 6.45 s 0%
Product page 1.36 4.45 s 4.72 s 4.85 s 0%
Product search 1 4.12 s 4.48 s 4.53 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.44 1.32 s 1.57 s 1.58 s 0%
Cart 2.44 1.09 s 1.28 s 1.32 s 0%
Checkout 2.44 837 ms 991 ms 1.03 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.46 4.39 s 5.35 s 5.56 s 0%
Cart 2.46 4.69 s 5.09 s 5.24 s 0%
Checkout 2.46 3.72 s 4.29 s 4.36 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 1.68 257 ms 346 ms 547 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.858 133 ms 224 ms 296 ms 0%
Home page 0.841 231 ms 390 ms 493 ms 0%
Categories page 0.429 264 ms 362 ms 520 ms 0%
User activity page 0.412 166 ms 220 ms 340 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.28 770 ms 1.09 s 1.65 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.15 401 ms 531 ms 602 ms 0%
Home page 1.14 675 ms 1.08 s 1.22 s 0%
Categories page 0.594 801 ms 1.4 s 1.88 s 0%
User activity page 0.577 460 ms 632 ms 905 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.32 1.95 s 2.34 s 2.83 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.13 1.53 s 1.85 s 2.07 s 0%
Home page 1.1 1.84 s 2.3 s 2.49 s 0%
Categories page 0.623 1.99 s 2.35 s 3.03 s 0%
User activity page 0.543 1.6 s 1.89 s 2 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 52.8 82.8 ms 205 ms 284 ms 0%
Topic JSON 26.4 80.7 ms 201 ms 289 ms 0%
Home page 26.4 83.6 ms 203 ms 251 ms 0%
Categories page 13.2 87.3 ms 208 ms 279 ms 0%
User activity page 13.2 271 ms 397 ms 607 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 63 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 2,401 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.96 39.4 ms 48.6 ms 62 ms 0%
Post page 17.4 21.1 ms 27.9 ms 38.3 ms 0%
Tag page 3.48 27.6 ms 33.4 ms 76.6 ms 0%
Author page 3.48 27.7 ms 33 ms 39.6 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.48 34.1 ms 40.5 ms 51.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 7.94 127 ms 162 ms 240 ms 0%
Post page 19.8 93.9 ms 127 ms 170 ms 0%
Tag page 3.98 84.3 ms 122 ms 177 ms 0%
Author page 3.98 85.9 ms 114 ms 124 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.93 91.2 ms 118 ms 140 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.83 519 ms 633 ms 672 ms 0%
Post page 19.6 424 ms 536 ms 597 ms 0%
Tag page 3.9 288 ms 371 ms 436 ms 0%
Author page 3.93 285 ms 385 ms 468 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.91 294 ms 401 ms 448 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.63 41.6 ms 55.9 ms 68.4 ms 0%
Post editor 10.9 15.7 ms 21.9 ms 29.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 10.9 38.6 ms 50.3 ms 67.1 ms 0%
Member list 3.65 47.7 ms 64.2 ms 77.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.22 60.9 ms 72.5 ms 82.2 ms 0%
Post editor 12.7 30.2 ms 38.4 ms 49.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.7 231 ms 290 ms 363 ms 0%
Member list 4.22 66.5 ms 84 ms 121 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 347 MB and MySQL at 622 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.25 108 ms 115 ms 117 ms 0%
Blog index 1.25 369 ms 384 ms 388 ms 0%
Blog post 3.71 33.8 ms 51.3 ms 54 ms 0%
Bread page 3.72 37.6 ms 40.2 ms 41.9 ms 0%
Location page 1.25 36.2 ms 39.4 ms 42.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.23 57.9 ms 94.9 ms 96 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.77 316 ms 451 ms 465 ms 0%
Blog index 1.82 1.11 s 1.35 s 1.45 s 0%
Blog post 5.33 90.7 ms 151 ms 186 ms 0%
Bread page 5.38 106 ms 142 ms 166 ms 0%
Location page 1.82 96.9 ms 133 ms 144 ms 0%
Site search 1.77 134 ms 273 ms 318 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.83 1.03 s 1.33 s 1.48 s 0%
Blog index 1.87 2.53 s 2.92 s 3.16 s 0%
Blog post 5.49 574 ms 881 ms 1.02 s 0%
Bread page 5.49 601 ms 931 ms 1.03 s 0%
Location page 1.85 617 ms 882 ms 978 ms 0%
Site search 1.8 658 ms 1.06 s 1.22 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.461 116 ms 139 ms 143 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.939 519 ms 651 ms 671 ms 0%
Page editor 1.38 241 ms 313 ms 403 ms 0%
Image library 0.461 89.5 ms 110 ms 797 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.461 46.8 ms 103 ms 105 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.622 401 ms 725 ms 812 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.28 1.47 s 2.31 s 2.55 s 0%
Page editor 1.88 717 ms 1.12 s 1.2 s 0%
Image library 0.622 427 ms 700 ms 726 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.622 164 ms 418 ms 506 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 294 MB, Postgres at 158 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
Chicago, IL
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, 12:26:43 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 13, 2026, 12:24:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 13, 2026, 12:26:11 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 13, 2026, 12:26:11 UTC
Completed
Oct 13, 2026, 14:10:11 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 13, 2026, 14:10:11 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.096
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