Update (26-Aug-2010): From my experience, they have very huge iowait and hence I/O problems on their VPS servers. You have to wait for like 10-15 seconds for a ‘uptime’ command to execute which is pretty pathetic. So in my opinion, it was useless for me.
Unix Benchmark results from Spacerich (OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit on their Munich, Germany node) using unixbench v 5.1.2
Specs: 256MB / 25GB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit
Note: Being in Europe, it has the best response time to Asia especially Pakistan
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Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
December 22, 2007 johantheghost at yahoo period com
1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Process Creation 1 2 3
1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
System: spacerich.li-node.com: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 -- #1 SMP Wed May 26 18:31:05 MSD 2010
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (5346.8 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
14:13:03 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.57, 0.28; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Sat Aug 14 2010 14:13:03 - 15:08:10
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 12575216.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2497.3 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3557.9 lps (29.5 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 421088.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 121289.6 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1117419.3 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 818415.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 251880.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 11495.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5067.7 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 657.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 638652.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 12575216.5 1077.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2497.3 454.0
Execl Throughput 43.0 3557.9 827.4
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 421088.5 1063.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 121289.6 732.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1117419.3 1926.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 818415.4 657.9
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 251880.4 629.7
Process Creation 126.0 11495.8 912.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5067.7 1195.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 657.5 1095.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 638652.8 425.8
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System Benchmarks Index Score 842.6
root@spacerich:~/unixbench-5.1.2#
I have a SpaceRich Chicago server, and got 853.2. 🙂
Well John, for one reason or the other. My SpaceRich VPS was not having good I/O. I had to wait for like half a min for a simple 'nano somefile' command to respond. The system lagged in almost 60% of the shell operations and commands. Contacted support and no resoution. Hence I cancelled my account immediately afterwards.
I've seen some variation, but nothing anywhere near as bad as that! I wonder if it was a problematic node?
Probably that node might have issues OR when I made tht comment public on LEB, they might have increased I/O for everyone. Anyway, good for you.
The german vps I've got is also very very slow. I have a pc smart vps too. There is a sky-ground difference between the ssh experience in both.
Besides I've been running arch on my spacerich vps, somehow wordpress+arch seems to be very unstable, with frequent fork bombs for no reason.
Not sure if arch linux is the reason or spacerich.
http://twitpic.com/2lfb8m -> showing zero ram allocation since last 1 hr 😀