8 Cores 8GB by IBM Cloud


I/O rate testing are conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. We use the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parameters are used:

  • 4K block
  • Random access
  • No filesystem (except for write access with root volume)
  • Avoidance of cache and buffer
Specifications:
CPU
8
RAM
8.0 GB

Virtual Guest SWAP disk

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Average 73963 26863
Deviation 45550.93 13636.26
Min 459 109