IBM Cloud Web Run Tests
U1.2x4 - Oct 12 2021

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Web Run tests are made of a load test tool and a database intensive Rails web application.

The load test tool sends HTTP requests to the web application at a controlled rate and records HTTP response codes, response latencies and timeouts. The load test tool is multithreaded and runs on the same VPS where the web application runs.

The intent is to measure:

  • the response times (latency) of the web server
  • the amount of CPU used to serve those requests under various load levels
  • what's the maximum load at which 100% requests are served without timing out.

Provider: IBM Cloud
Plan: U1.2x4
Datacenter: Texas, USA
Number of CPU cores: 2
CPU type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz

Web Runs by request rate


Note: the P99 is the 99th percentile. The P99 latency is the latency of the 1% slowest HTTP requests in the web run.


Rate (reqs/s) Average Latency P99 Latency CPU idle CPU steal Successful requests Timed out requests Duration (minutes)
1 60ms 140ms 96% 0.09% 304 0 5
5 57ms 135ms 83% 0.14% 1504 0 5
10 56ms 135ms 68% 0.12% 6005 0 10
15 55ms 135ms 54% 0.13% 4505 0 5
25 54ms 135ms 27% 0.10% 7510 0 5
35 53ms 125ms 0% 0.07% 10502 2 5
40 53ms 125ms 0% 0.08% 10490 1510 5

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