# Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G

[Amsterdam 1](https://rackcensus.com/locations/amsterdam-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Amsterdam")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 14, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

983

Faster than 41% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,830

Faster than 48% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

5,164

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

€16.79 EUR

93 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[Scaleway](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/scaleway-benchmarks)[BASIC2-A2C-4G](https://rackcensus.com/plans/bmh9l8-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-benchmarks?location=nl-ams-1)

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Provider

Scaleway

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Plan

BASIC2-A2C-4G

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Location

Amsterdam 1

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

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Network

200 Mbps

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OS image

ubuntu\_noble

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:00 UTC

[Visit Scaleway](https://rackcensus.com/go/scaleway)

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Paris 1 Oct 7, 2026](https://rackcensus.com/benchmarks/9h2d8o-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-fr-par-1-benchmark)925

[Full history of this plan](https://rackcensus.com/plans/bmh9l8-scaleway-basic2-a2c-4g-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 983 | 1,830 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/627100) |

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 | 46.3 GB/s | 3 | 0.748% |
| Scale higher is better | 44.8 GB/s | 3 | 0.282% |
| Add higher is better | 41.9 GB/s | 3 | 1.56% |
| Triad higher is better | 42.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.83% |

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 | 97.6/s | 3 | 0.237% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 8,015/s | 3 | 0.083% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 1.45 GB/s | 3 | 1.24% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 4.72 GB/s | 3 | 0.0812% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.74 GB/s | 3 | 0.0632% |

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 | 14.9 ms | 3 | 0% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 133/s | 3 | 0.433% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 36.2 ms | 3 | 13.6% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 133/s | 2 | 0.282% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 10.1 MB/s (2,578 IOPS) | 10.1 MB/s (2,586 IOPS) | 20.2 MB/s (5,164 IOPS) |
| 64K | 78.8 MB/s (1,261 IOPS) | 81.2 MB/s (1,298 IOPS) | 160 MB/s (2,559 IOPS) |
| 512K | 75 MB/s (149 IOPS) | 81.4 MB/s (162 IOPS) | 156.4 MB/s (311 IOPS) |
| 1M | 72.8 MB/s (72 IOPS) | 81.2 MB/s (81 IOPS) | 154 MB/s (153 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 | 454 Mbps | 7.31 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 411 Mbps | 15.9 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 429 Mbps | 1.53 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 434 Mbps | 1.23 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 450 Mbps | 3.17 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 | 1,160 | 0.862 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,245 | 0.803 ms |
| fsync | 489 | 2.05 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 446 | 2.24 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 646 | 1.55 ms |
| fdatasync | 1,139 | 0.878 ms |
| fsync | 501 | 2 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 258 | 3.88 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 512 | 1.95 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 260 | 3.85 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 126 | 7.92 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 58.6 | 17.1 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 30.7 | 32.6 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 490 | 2.04 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 506 | 1.98 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 1,067,585 | 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 | 500 | 1.89 ms | 2.39 ms | 3.43 ms | 7.34 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,369 | 2.77 ms | 6.25 ms | 9.83 ms | 31.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,689 | 8.71 ms | 29.7 ms | 54.5 ms | 152 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 23,400 | 0.04 ms | 0.055 ms | 0.071 ms | 0.108 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 36,430 | 0.205 ms | 0.326 ms | 0.39 ms | 0.787 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 35,454 | 0.843 ms | 1.32 ms | 1.68 ms | 3.15 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.63 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 | 444 | 2.04 ms | 3.06 ms | 5.56 ms | 14.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,696 | 3.47 ms | 8.81 ms | 28.4 ms | 100 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 2,308 | 10.2 ms | 32.9 ms | 65.5 ms | 146 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 13,455 | 0.054 ms | 0.102 ms | 0.283 ms | 1.12 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 27,987 | 0.262 ms | 0.419 ms | 0.571 ms | 1.64 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 28,799 | 1.04 ms | 1.68 ms | 2.13 ms | 3.74 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 59.8 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 | 89.9 | 1,799 | 8.58 ms | 15.3 ms | 95.8 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 301 | 6,025 | 15.8 ms | 111 ms | 190 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 425 | 8,503 | 61.1 ms | 159 ms | 240 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 747 | 11,957 | 1.25 ms | 2.03 ms | 2.91 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,231 | 19,690 | 6.21 ms | 9.22 ms | 10.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,117 | 17,871 | 27.7 ms | 36.2 ms | 40.4 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 18.5 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 77,283 | 70,257 | 0.439 ms | 2.7 ms | 4.42 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 74,235 | 37,117 | 0.495 ms | 2.77 ms | 4.1 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 | 455 | 1,570 | 2,334 | 1.84 s |
| Express express-postgresjs | 5,826 | 7,662 | 18,310 | 407 ms |
| Fastify fastify-postgres | 5,807 | 8,359 | 20,349 | 250 ms |
| NestJS nestjs | 3,093 | 3,578 | 10,291 | 148 ms |
| Nuxt nuxt | 4,971 | 7,265 | 16,269 | 108 ms |
| FastAPI fastapi | 2,602 | 3,202 | 17,228 | 327 ms |
| Django django-postgresql | 1,459 | 1,611 | 3,818 | 338 ms |
| Rails rails | 1,865 | 2,390 | 9,088 | 194 ms |
| Laravel laravel | 496 | 496 | 919 | 545 ms |
| Symfony symfony | 594 | 670 | 1,959 | 454 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 | 1.62 | 975 ms | 1.1 s | 1.11 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.62 | 1.32 s | 1.5 s | 1.52 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.62 | 836 ms | 1.35 s | 1.44 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.62 | 889 ms | 1.05 s | 1.07 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.62 | 774 ms | 879 ms | 889 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.74 | 3.63 s | 4.15 s | 4.29 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.74 | 4.76 s | 5.48 s | 5.59 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.59 | 4.12 s | 5.22 s | 5.42 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.35 | 3.62 s | 3.94 s | 3.99 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.35 | 3.41 s | 3.72 s | 3.81 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 3.12 | 1.04 s | 1.18 s | 1.2 s | 0% |
| Cart | 3.12 | 819 ms | 939 ms | 967 ms | 0% |
| Checkout | 3.12 | 621 ms | 723 ms | 736 ms | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 3.14 | 3.41 s | 4.23 s | 4.37 s | 0% |
| Cart | 3.14 | 3.6 s | 3.97 s | 4.08 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 3.14 | 2.79 s | 3.21 s | 3.34 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.

### Discourse

#### Signed in

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7432 MB and 4436 MB is free

#### Anonymous

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4436 MB is free

### Ghost

#### Readers

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Home page | 4.49 | 65.1 ms | 94.3 ms | 99.5 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 11.2 | 30.5 ms | 46.5 ms | 56.1 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 2.25 | 40 ms | 61.1 ms | 64.4 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 2.25 | 45.4 ms | 64.6 ms | 68.9 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 2.23 | 48.4 ms | 76.3 ms | 81.6 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 6.34 | 175 ms | 236 ms | 278 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 15.8 | 109 ms | 171 ms | 196 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 3.18 | 97.1 ms | 155 ms | 190 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 3.18 | 116 ms | 168 ms | 190 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 3.16 | 111 ms | 172 ms | 188 ms | 0% |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 6.53 | 627 ms | 754 ms | 802 ms | 0% |
| Post page | 16.4 | 511 ms | 637 ms | 711 ms | 0% |
| Tag page | 3.27 | 341 ms | 461 ms | 510 ms | 0% |
| Author page | 3.3 | 346 ms | 485 ms | 554 ms | 0% |
| RSS feed | 3.27 | 340 ms | 436 ms | 456 ms | 0% |

#### Staff in Ghost Admin

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Post list | 2.5 | 55.7 ms | 77.7 ms | 84.2 ms | 0% |
| Post editor | 7.54 | 21.5 ms | 31.9 ms | 35.9 ms | 0% |
| Saving a draft | 7.54 | 58.2 ms | 78.5 ms | 104 ms | 0% |
| Member list | 2.5 | 72.3 ms | 97.7 ms | 113 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Post list | 3.73 | 60.3 ms | 81.6 ms | 138 ms | 0% |
| Post editor | 11.2 | 29.5 ms | 46.8 ms | 64.5 ms | 0% |
| Saving a draft | 11.3 | 268 ms | 350 ms | 422 ms | 0% |
| Member list | 3.75 | 76.8 ms | 101 ms | 119 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 305 MB and MySQL at 626 MB.

### Wagtail

#### Visitors

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 virtual user |
| --- |
| Home page | 0.881 | 159 ms | 208 ms | 269 ms | 0% |
| Blog index | 0.881 | 487 ms | 598 ms | 626 ms | 0% |
| Blog post | 2.63 | 52.4 ms | 87 ms | 100 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 2.63 | 58 ms | 75.1 ms | 76.4 ms | 0% |
| Location page | 0.881 | 59 ms | 71 ms | 72 ms | 0% |
| Site search | 0.865 | 83.3 ms | 153 ms | 183 ms | 0% |
| 4 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 2.2 | 241 ms | 359 ms | 411 ms | 0% |
| Blog index | 2.25 | 867 ms | 1.21 s | 1.6 s | 0% |
| Blog post | 6.63 | 70.8 ms | 117 ms | 146 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 6.65 | 77.5 ms | 114 ms | 128 ms | 0% |
| Location page | 2.25 | 72.9 ms | 99.8 ms | 108 ms | 0% |
| Site search | 2.22 | 119 ms | 262 ms | 326 ms | 0% |
| 16 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 2.59 | 718 ms | 931 ms | 989 ms | 0% |
| Blog index | 2.56 | 1.82 s | 2.08 s | 2.19 s | 0% |
| Blog post | 7.66 | 413 ms | 665 ms | 757 ms | 0% |
| Bread page | 7.71 | 428 ms | 691 ms | 773 ms | 0% |
| Location page | 2.57 | 413 ms | 715 ms | 797 ms | 0% |
| Site search | 2.56 | 513 ms | 771 ms | 922 ms | 0% |

#### Editors in the Wagtail admin

Failed: k6 setup failed at 1 virtual users, wagtail isn't serving the seeded site: time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" level=warning msg="Request Failed" error="Get \"http://wagtail:8000/\": lookup wagtail on 127.0.0.11:53: server misbehaving" time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" level=error msg="Error: the home page returned status 0\n\tat setup (file:///work/wagtail.js:170:11(31))\n" hint="script exception" source=stacktrace

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 317 MB, Postgres at 204 MB, and Redis at 9 MB.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 4 GB | 3.8 GiB |
| Storage | | 8.9 GiB |
| Architecture | arm64 | arm64 |
| Virtualization | KVM | VM-OTHER |

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:** 8.9 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** VM-OTHER

**CPU steal:** 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen

**Distro:** Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

**Kernel:** 6.8.0-142-generic

**Architecture:** arm64

**IPv4 reachable:** Yes

**IPv6 reachable:** No

## Advertised at test time

**Plan:** BASIC2-A2C-4G

**Product line:** General Purpose

**Location:** Amsterdam 1

**vCPU:** 2 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** arm64

**RAM:** 4 GB

**Storage:**

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** 200 Mbps

**Transfer:** Unmetered

**Port 25:** Unknown

**Monthly price at test time:** €16.79 EUR

**Hourly price at test time:** €0.023 EUR

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

**Ran at:** Oct 14, 2026, 03:25:00 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 14, 2026, 03:24:52 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 14, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 14, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** €0.037 EUR

Tests 40 of 41 done Live output 764 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 21.2 MB/s at 4k, 161 MB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 434 Mbit/s send, 3.17 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 983 1 of 1Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,830 1 of 1Done

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

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 1 failed, 2 skipped 15 of 16Some failed

TestResultTime

Next.js fortune 256c 395 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 18s

Express fortune 256c 5,658 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 57s

Fastify fortune 256c 5,807 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 54s

NestJS fortune 256c 2,886 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 05s

Nuxt fortune 256c 4,971 req/s rps, fortune 256c 2m 54s

FastAPI fortune 256c 2,545 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 14s

Django fortune 256c 1,338 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 17s

Rails fortune 256c 1,865 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 19s

Laravel fortune 256c 496 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 02s

Symfony fortune 256c 594 req/s rps, fortune 256c 3m 01s

WooCommerce page mix 32 vus 7.76 req/s rps, 32 vus 3m 16s

WooCommerce cart flow 32 vus 9.41 req/s rps, 32 vus 2m 16s

Discourse, signed in Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7432 MB and 4436 MB is free

Discourse, anonymous Discourse Not run not enough disk, needs 7500 MB and 4436 MB is free

Ghost, readers 16 vus 32.7 req/s rps, 16 vus 5m 07s

Ghost, staff in Ghost Admin 4 vus 30 req/s rps, 4 vus 2m 03s

Wagtail, visitors 16 vus 25.7 req/s rps, 16 vus 4m 11s

Wagtail, editors in the Wagtail admin 1 vus Stopped k6 setup failed at 1 virtual users, wagtail isn't serving the seeded site: time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" level=warning msg="Request Failed" error="Get \"http://wagtail:8000/\": lookup wagtail on 127.0.0.11:53: server misbehaving" time="2026-10-14T04:59:38Z" level=error msg="Error: the home page returned status 0\n\tat setup (file:///work/wagtail.js:170:11(31))\n" hint="script exception" source=stacktrace 5s

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