ikoula VPS activation tutorial and simple evaluation of 1.7GB memory German KVM VPS

Details: ikoula: €1/month/1.7GB RAM/50GB SSD space/Unlimited bandwidth/Xen/Germany/France/Netherlands After purchase, go to https://extranet.ikoula.com, open the ports and activate the VPS as shown below.

1. System information, bandwidth, I/O test

 CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 3200.076 MHz Total size of Disk : 48.9 GB (1.1 GB Used) Total amount of Mem : 1516 MB (165 MB Used) Total amount of Swap : 951 MB (0 MB Used) System uptime : 0 days 0 hour 1 min Load average : 0.07, 0.04, 0.02 OS : Debian GNU/Linux 8 Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 3.16.0-4-amd64 Virt : xen xen-hvm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O speed( 32M ) : 216 MB/s I/O speed( 256M ) : 350 MB/s I/O speed( 2G ) : 407 MB/s Average I/O speed : 324.3 MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency Normal Node 101.73 Mbit/s 683.84 Mbit/s 1.788 ms Xiangyang CT 3.93 Mbit/s 90.42 Mbit/s 333.168 ms Shanghai CT 6.31 Mbit/s 22.47 Mbit/s 325.717 ms Xi'an CU 3.61 Mbit/s 16.10 Mbit/s 456.642 ms Shanghai CU 0.71 Mbit/s 8.38 Mbit/s 725.241 ms Chongqing CU 4.86 Mbit/s 7.34 Mbit/s 483.926 ms Xi'an CM 19.11 Mbit/s 29.52 Mbit/s 501.869 ms Shanghai CM 15.90 Mbit/s 48.24 Mbit/s 283.013 ms Chengdu CM 27.73 Mbit/s 21.68 Mbit/s 274.468 ms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total time : 3 min 56 sec Current time : 2018-06-18 05:43:54 Finished！

2. Upload/download bandwidth test

 Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Interoute VDC (Frankfurt) [4.07 km]: 1.569 ms Testing download speed....................... Download: 811.73 Mbit/s Testing upload speed......................... Upload: 101.56 Mbit/s

3. Hard disk I/O performance test

 dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.79834 s, 95.9 MB/s

4. UnixBench running score

 Benchmark Run: Mon Jun 18 2018 06:05:38 - 06:33:47 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 24853379.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 3747.0 MWIPS (9.8 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 4187.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 939172.8 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 251655.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2080994.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 1731288.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 336792.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 10617.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6875.5 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 874.1 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 3410788.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 24853379.1 2129.7 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3747.0 681.3 Execl Throughput 43.0 4187.7 973.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 939172.8 2371.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 251655.8 1520.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2080994.8 3587.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1731288.7 1391.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 336792.6 842.0 Process Creation 126.0 10617.2 842.6 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6875.5 1621.6 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 874.1 1456.9 System Call Overhead 15000.0 3410788.8 2273.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 1464.0