ORACLE Cloud Sustained CPU Endurance Run
E4 2 cores 4GB - Sep 21 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: ORACLE Cloud
Plan: E4 2 cores 4GB
Number of CPU cores: 2
Burstable CPU resources: no
CPU type: AMD EPYC 7J13 64-Core 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. 5307
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. 0.45%
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. 47.2%
Average CPU steal Average percentage of CPU steal during the test. Lower is better. 0.34%
Max CPU steal Maximum percentage of CPU steal during the test. 0.47%


Number of tasks completed per hour




Date Number of iterations per hour CPU Idle % CPU Steal %
September 22, 2021 22:00 UTC 5315 52.15 0.31
September 22, 2021 20:00 UTC 5336 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 18:00 UTC 5312 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 16:00 UTC 5295 49.76 0.35
September 22, 2021 14:00 UTC 5289 49.72 0.34
September 22, 2021 12:00 UTC 5284 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 10:00 UTC 5286 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 08:00 UTC 5319 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 06:00 UTC 5322 49.77 0.34
September 22, 2021 04:00 UTC 5311 49.56 0.36
September 22, 2021 02:00 UTC 5325 49.76 0.34
September 22, 2021 00:00 UTC 5300 49.76 0.34
September 21, 2021 22:00 UTC 5244 49.65 0.36

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