Server benchmark 2011: Hetzner EX 4 Dedicated Server
- 2011
- Hetzner EQ 4 Dedicated Server
- i7-2600 Quadcore
- 16 GB RAM
- 3 TB SATA 6 Gb/s HDD RAID1
- 100 GB backup space
- 10 TB traffic/mo
- Debian 6.0 64 bit
- Tests run 2011-10-04
UnixBench 5.1.2
./Run dhry2reg whetstone-double syscall pipe context1 spawn execl shell1 shell8 shell16
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
System: *****: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-5-amd64 -- #1 SMP Fri Sep 9 20:23:16 UTC 2011
Machine: x86_64 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6821.7 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 4: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 5: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 6: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 7: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6822.9 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
17:49:07 up 1:04, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.72, 1.13; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Tue Oct 04 2011 17:49:07 - 18:13:14
8 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 41819932.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 4579.8 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 2498.9 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 3094162.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 102728.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 10027.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5669.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 2898.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 4952.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 5243222.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 41819932.3 3583.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 4579.8 832.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 2498.9 581.1
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 3094162.4 2487.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 102728.5 256.8
Process Creation 126.0 10027.1 795.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5669.1 1337.1
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 2898.5 ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 4952.4 8254.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 5243222.0 3495.5
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 1479.7
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Benchmark Run: Tue Oct 04 2011 18:13:14 - 18:37:25
8 CPUs in system; running 8 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 168132785.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 28487.1 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 36887.3 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 13564956.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 3074224.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 116633.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 50450.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) 3312.8 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6627.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 10598345.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 168132785.0 14407.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 28487.1 5179.5
Execl Throughput 43.0 36887.3 8578.4
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 13564956.8 10904.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 3074224.9 7685.6
Process Creation 126.0 116633.4 9256.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 50450.7 11898.8
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent) --- 3312.8 ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 6627.6 11046.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 10598345.2 7065.6
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 9175.9
the best of three subsequent test runs of
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.34242 s, 146 MB/s
the best of three subsequent test runs of
hdparm -t dev
Timing cached reads: 25818 MB in 2.00 seconds = 12925.14 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 458 MB in 3.00 seconds = 152.57 MB/sec
Disclaimer: based on my experience disk performance testing with dd and hdparm are crude methods. The real-life disk load of a web service cannot be emulated with dd or hdparm.