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Linode Nanode 1GB

Fremont, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 8, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
70,105
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 49,297 over 3 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$5.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Nanode 1GB
  • Location
    Fremont, CA
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 8, 2026, 06:17:00 UTC
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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 31.5 GB/s 3 0.857%
Scale higher is better 20.1 GB/s 3 1.23%
Add higher is better 23.4 GB/s 3 1.48%
Triad higher is better 23.3 GB/s 3 1.03%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 225/s 3 0.303%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,600/s 3 0.182%
SHA-256 higher is better 676 MB/s 3 0.608%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.47 GB/s 3 0.161%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.76 GB/s 3 0.244%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 4.18 ms 3 0.221%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 237/s 3 0.243%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.82 ms 3 8.19%
Requests per second, average higher is better 236/s 3 1.13%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 136.7 MB/s (35,006 IOPS) 137.1 MB/s (35,099 IOPS) 273.9 MB/s (70,105 IOPS)
64K 1.29 GB/s (21,057 IOPS) 1.29 GB/s (21,168 IOPS) 2.58 GB/s (42,225 IOPS)
512K 2.12 GB/s (4,351 IOPS) 2.24 GB/s (4,582 IOPS) 4.36 GB/s (8,933 IOPS)
1M 2.28 GB/s (2,334 IOPS) 2.43 GB/s (2,489 IOPS) 4.71 GB/s (4,823 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 972 Mbps 1.64 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 977 Mbps 1.63 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 848 Mbps 1.26 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.09 Gbps 8.52 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.01 Gbps 3.78 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 12,923 0.077 ms
fdatasync 7,028 0.142 ms
fsync 5,891 0.17 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 5,453 0.183 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,931 0.169 ms
fdatasync 6,522 0.153 ms
fsync 5,313 0.188 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,891 0.346 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 6,458 0.155 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 3,345 0.299 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,656 0.604 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 518 1.93 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 266 3.75 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 6,248 0.16 ms
write, close, fsync 6,208 0.161 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,114,269 0.001 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,708 0.355 ms 0.417 ms 0.565 ms 1.49 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,737 1.99 ms 3.21 ms 4.1 ms 6.81 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,517 7.65 ms 18.8 ms 29.4 ms 47.2 ms 0
Read only 1 32,558 0.028 ms 0.041 ms 0.052 ms 0.104 ms 0
Read only 8 35,030 0.199 ms 0.359 ms 0.409 ms 0.946 ms 0
Read only 32 36,278 0.787 ms 0.93 ms 1.13 ms 2.19 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.57 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,293 0.728 ms 1.11 ms 2.17 ms 4.99 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,752 2.69 ms 4.45 ms 6.78 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,153 9.67 ms 13.8 ms 17.1 ms 23.1 ms 0
Read only 1 2,828 0.323 ms 0.666 ms 1.23 ms 3.83 ms 0
Read only 8 11,745 0.629 ms 1.19 ms 2.04 ms 4.78 ms 0
Read only 32 14,196 1.88 ms 3.73 ms 4.58 ms 6.78 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 17.6 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 431 8,625 2.11 ms 3.43 ms 5.57 ms 0
Read/write 8 554 11,074 13.7 ms 21.1 ms 29.7 ms 0
Read/write 32 538 10,759 53.9 ms 101 ms 132 ms 0
Read only 1 1,027 16,433 0.904 ms 1.34 ms 2.18 ms 0
Read only 8 1,030 16,473 7.57 ms 9.22 ms 13.2 ms 0
Read only 32 965 15,443 32.5 ms 38.9 ms 45.8 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 12.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 61,154 55,594 1.06 ms 2.02 ms 3.46 ms
1:1 set:get 59,961 29,980 1.09 ms 2.02 ms 3.5 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.21 1.22 s 1.33 s 1.46 s 0%
Shop page 1.21 1.58 s 1.79 s 1.81 s 0%
Category page 1.21 1.43 s 1.71 s 1.78 s 0%
Product page 1.21 1.18 s 1.35 s 1.4 s 0%
Product search 1.21 1.12 s 1.21 s 1.22 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.59 s 5.24 s 5.3 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 6.2 s 7.02 s 7.14 s 0%
Category page 1.36 5.67 s 6.84 s 6.97 s 0%
Product page 0.992 4.79 s 5 s 5.07 s 0%
Product search 0.907 4.55 s 4.84 s 4.87 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.29 1.1 s 1.34 s 1.36 s 0%
Cart 2.29 1.19 s 1.28 s 1.29 s 0%
Checkout 2.29 951 ms 1.05 s 1.06 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.41 4.28 s 5.31 s 5.37 s 0%
Cart 2.41 4.88 s 5.27 s 5.32 s 0%
Checkout 2.41 3.89 s 4.37 s 4.41 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 66 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB SSD 24 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
2300 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
24 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-134-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Nanode 1GB
Product line
Shared CPU (Nanode)
Location
Fremont, CA
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$5.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.0075
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 8, 2026, 06:18:25 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 8, 2026, 06:17:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 8, 2026, 06:18:15 UTC
Completed
Oct 8, 2026, 07:24:29 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 8, 2026, 07:24:29 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.0084
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