Aruba Cloud Sustained CPU Endurance Run
PRO O4A8 - Mar 24 2024

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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: Aruba Cloud
Plan: PRO O4A8
Number of CPU cores: 4
Burstable CPU resources: no
CPU type: AMD EPYC-Milan Processor


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. 9111
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. 0.97%
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. 49.8%
Min CPU idle Minimum percentage of CPU idle during the test. 48.7%
Average CPU steal Average percentage of CPU steal during the test. Lower is better. 0.07%
Max CPU steal Maximum percentage of CPU steal during the test. 0.08%


Number of tasks completed per hour




Date Number of iterations per hour CPU Idle % CPU Steal %
March 25, 2024 08:00 UTC 9098 55.6 0.15
March 25, 2024 06:00 UTC 9047 49.7 0.07
March 25, 2024 04:00 UTC 9064 49.79 0.07
March 25, 2024 02:00 UTC 9191 49.77 0.07
March 25, 2024 00:00 UTC 9063 49.78 0.07
March 24, 2024 22:00 UTC 9149 49.77 0.07
March 24, 2024 20:00 UTC 9151 49.74 0.07
March 24, 2024 18:00 UTC 9128 49.77 0.07
March 24, 2024 16:00 UTC 9037 49.77 0.07
March 24, 2024 14:00 UTC 9068 49.72 0.07
March 24, 2024 12:00 UTC 9119 49.78 0.07
March 24, 2024 10:00 UTC 9170 49.77 0.07
March 24, 2024 08:00 UTC 9181 49.72 0.07

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