A2 Hosting Sustained CPU Endurance Run
Runway 2 - Jan 17 2021

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The sustained CPU endurance test runs a cpu intensive task in a loop for 24 hours. As maxing out the cpu might be considered abusive, the tests aims to use no more than 50% of each cpu core on the VPS.

The purpose of this type of test is

  • first to evaluate the speed to the VPS,
  • second to evaluate the stability over time of the cpu available to the VPS
  • and third to detect VPS where the CPU is throttled and the performance goes down over time after cpu utilization goes over a threshold the provider considers excessive for a particular plan.

The performance is measured at regular intervals in terms of tasks executed per hour, amount of idle cpu and amount of "cpu steal".

Provider: A2 Hosting
Plan: Runway 2
Number of CPU cores: 2
Burstable CPU resources: no
CPU type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz


DescriptionValue
Target CPU usage Overall CPU that the endurance test tries to use across all CPU cores on the VM. 50%
Average iterations per hour Average number of tasks executed per hour. It represents how much work the VPS was able to achieve per hour. Higher numbers are better. 2560
Coefficient of variation iterations per hour This represents the dispersion of the number of tasks per hour. It's the standard variation divided by the mean number of tasks per hour. It's an indicator on stability of the performance of the VPS. A low standard deviation means the VPS speed stayed close to constant. A high standard deviation means performance varied significantly during the test. 2.18%
Average CPU idle Average percentage of CPU that was idle during the test. This number should be close to 50% unless the CPU is being throttled like in burstable VPS plans. 49.7%
Min CPU idle Minimum percentage of CPU idle during the test. 49.5%
Average CPU steal Average percentage of CPU steal during the test. Lower is better. 0.00%
Max CPU steal Maximum percentage of CPU steal during the test. 0.00%


Number of tasks completed per hour




Date Number of iterations per hour CPU Idle % CPU Steal %
January 18, 2021 02:00 UTC 2587 55.16 0.0
January 18, 2021 00:00 UTC 2582 49.67 0.0
January 17, 2021 22:00 UTC 2551 49.69 0.0
January 17, 2021 20:00 UTC 2533 49.68 0.0
January 17, 2021 18:00 UTC 2504 49.66 0.0
January 17, 2021 16:00 UTC 2525 49.64 0.0
January 17, 2021 14:00 UTC 2497 49.64 0.0
January 17, 2021 12:00 UTC 2536 49.65 0.0
January 17, 2021 10:00 UTC 2531 49.64 0.0
January 17, 2021 08:00 UTC 2550 49.73 0.0
January 17, 2021 06:00 UTC 2634 49.93 0.0
January 17, 2021 04:00 UTC 2651 49.86 0.0
January 17, 2021 02:00 UTC 2660 49.75 0.0

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