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Instance benchmark

Akamai (Linode) g6-standard-2

The complete benchmark report. Every workload, in one place.

2 vCPU3.8 GiB RAMx86_64London 2, UK
Published report · 18 Oct 2026 · One deployment · 19 min test windowUbuntu 24.04.4 · Region gb-lon · Method pilot-1

All values below are medians of passed runs unless stated otherwise.

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CPU performance

sysbench 1.0.20 prime workload · 1 thread and all 2 vCPUs.

1,251events/s
Single thread
2,613events/s
All 2 vCPUs
Events / sec
  • 1 thread
    1,251
  • 2 threads
    2,613

Median of 3 passed runs of about 30 seconds per thread count.

gzip fixed corpus · compression input throughput 103.5 MiB/s · single run.

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Memory bandwidth

sysbench 1.0.20 memory · sequential read and write operations.

Read14,108 MiB/s
Write12,651 MiB/s
CopyNot measured
Throughput (MiB/s)
  • Read
    14,108
  • Write
    12,651
  • Copy
    Not measured

Median of 3 passed runs of about 31 seconds per operation. The copy workload is deferred in this methodology.

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Disk performance

fio 3.36 · direct I/O · sequential, random and mixed jobs measured separately.

WorkloadThroughputp95 latency
Sequential read4,218 MB/s11,731 µs
Sequential write5,244 MB/s8,847 µs
Random read54,152 IOPS806.9 µs
Random write41,530 IOPS1,044 µs
Random mix · read37,146 IOPS864.3 µs
Random mix · write15,926 IOPS995.3 µs

Median of 3 passed runs of about 30 seconds per job. The mixed job's reads and writes are listed separately.

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Network performance

Source: London 2, UK · LibreSpeed CLI 1.0.14 · public HTTPS destinations.

DestinationDownloadUploadHTTP latencyHTTP jitterLoss
Frankfurt, Germany (Clouvider)
18/10/2026, 12:39:15 UTC · Same deployment supplement · View reviewed run
4,480 Mbit/s1,120 Mbit/s14.9 ms0.05 msNot measured
New York, United States (2) (Clouvider)
18/10/2026, 12:39:15 UTC · Same deployment supplement · View reviewed run
918.5 Mbit/s289.5 Mbit/s77.5 ms0.12 msNot measured

One 10-second download and upload per destination, three concurrent streams, IPv4 over HTTPS, with no configured rate limit. HTTP latency and jitter are application-level measurements; packet loss was not measured. These paths do not establish maximum link capacity.

Separately reviewed later observations on this same deployment. The original capped iperf path checks remain under Evidence; their values and test window are unchanged.

Outbound traffic has a monitored byte-abort threshold with sampling and termination overshoot; an aborted transfer is unscored.

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PostgreSQL performance

PostgreSQL 16.15 · pgbench · in-memory and storage-bound datasets.

Dataset profileTransactions / secAverage latencyPassed runs
In memory1,6812.38 ms3 of 3 passed
Storage-bound1,5902.51 ms3 of 3 passed

Median of 3 passed runs of about 30 seconds per dataset. Latency percentiles were not measured.

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Consistency across runs

One deployment · repeated runs inside the recorded test window.

24-hour consistencyNot measured

Workload skipped · No measured score. This report covers a 19 min test window, so no time series exists and none is drawn.

RepetitionCPU 1 threadMemory readRandom readPostgreSQL
11,240 events/s14,490 MiB/s53,846 IOPS1,681 tx/s
21,251 events/s14,108 MiB/s57,181 IOPS1,678 tx/s
31,274 events/s13,313 MiB/s54,152 IOPS1,730 tx/s

Individual runs, not medians. PostgreSQL uses the in-memory dataset. Spread within one test window does not establish long-term consistency.

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Inspect the evidence.

Recorded environment, reviewed measurements and the published snapshot.

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Architecturex86_64
Methodpilot-1
Deployments1
Window19 min
report.json

Reviewed, sanitized snapshot: every run, the environment record and all limitations. Raw intake logs remain private.

Read the full methodology

One deployment describes this report, not every server a provider operates.

A 19 min test window does not establish 24-hour consistency or long-term reliability.

AI-assisted review · AI-assisted review · Reviewed 18 Oct 2026 · Published 18 Oct 2026 · Revision 1

Review and measurement limits
  • Single deployment; not an independent three-instance cohort.
  • No hardware attestation.
  • Pilot memory implements read/write; copy workload deferred.
  • Network endpoints must be supplied by the operator; no public third-party servers are used.
  • Database latency distribution is not available from this pilot parser; average latency only.
  • This profile is not a full implementation of all proposed methodology tests.
  • Resource-constrained environment: CPU workers and RAM reflect affinity/cgroup limits, not host capacity. Private resource-limits evidence retains both; do not merge container/VM or architecture cohorts.
  • Short profile: does not establish 24-hour consistency.
  • This report received AI-assisted evidence review under user-delegated authorization. This is not independent human verification or hardware attestation.
  • This pilot measures its recorded test window. It does not establish 24-hour consistency, long-term reliability or provider-wide performance.
  • Provider, region and SKU were matched to retained deployment records. Missing detected values use operator-supplied context and remain labelled supplied. Control-plane records and checksums do not attest the physical host or establish physical-host independence.
  • Package versions and available guard and journal evidence were reviewed. These records do not establish continuous absence of package activity throughout the test window.
  • The pilot includes memory read/write and average PostgreSQL latency. Memory-copy tests and PostgreSQL latency percentiles are not implemented. Skipped consistency and missing measurements are not scores.
Environment and configuration
Recorded fieldValue
ProviderAkamai (Linode) · detected
RegionLondon 2, UK (gb-lon) · detected
Plang6-standard-2 · detected
CPUAMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Architecturex86_64
Kernel6.8.0-134-generic
Virtualizationkvm
Agent0.2.0 (23b2bdf0a44eddbe52e3b899b8a1769b4424de50+source.a0b27c93514a741362a6748c)
Dependenciessysbench: sysbench 1.0.20 · fio: fio-3.36 · iperf3: iperf 3.16 (cJSON 1.7.15) · postgresql: postgres (PostgreSQL) 16.15 (Ubuntu 16.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) · pgbench: pgbench (PostgreSQL) 16.15 (Ubuntu 16.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) · gzip: gzip 1.12 · apt:sysbench: 1.0.20+ds-6build2 · apt:fio: 3.36-1ubuntu0.1 · apt:iperf3: 3.16-1build2 · apt:postgresql-16: 16.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 · apt:postgresql-client-16: 16.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 · apt:gzip: 1.12-1ubuntu3.2
Configuration hashe00583188b74b5fb174be97e80ba1680772b4974606925aeedcab685e0acd216
Started2026-10-18T12:16:17.665Z
Finished2026-10-18T12:35:18.327Z
Execution statuscompleted
Historical capped network path checks

Original full benchmark deployment · 18 Oct 2026. These controlled iperf path checks and do not measure internet speed or maximum link capacity. RTT is the probe mean; jitter and packet loss were not measured. The original report JSON retains these measurements.

Controlled destinationDownloadUploadRTTJitterLoss
Controlled network endpointsskipped————
Every measured repetition and outcome

CPU performance

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
CPU 1 thread(s) · repetition 1passedEvents per second1,240 events/s
CPU 2 thread(s) · repetition 1passedEvents per second2,657 events/s
CPU 1 thread(s) · repetition 2passedEvents per second1,251 events/s
CPU 2 thread(s) · repetition 2passedEvents per second2,510 events/s
CPU 1 thread(s) · repetition 3passedEvents per second1,274 events/s
CPU 2 thread(s) · repetition 3passedEvents per second2,613 events/s
gzip fixed corpus · repetition 1passedCompression input throughput103.5 MiB/s

Memory bandwidth

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
Memory read · repetition 1passedBandwidth14,490 MiB/s
Memory write · repetition 1passedBandwidth12,948 MiB/s
Memory read · repetition 2passedBandwidth14,108 MiB/s
Memory write · repetition 2passedBandwidth12,651 MiB/s
Memory read · repetition 3passedBandwidth13,313 MiB/s
Memory write · repetition 3passedBandwidth12,420 MiB/s

Disk performance

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
Disk write · repetition 1passedwrite bandwidth4,629 MB/s
Disk write · repetition 1passedwrite operations4,414 IOPS
Disk write · repetition 1passedwrite p50 latency6,783 µs
Disk write · repetition 1passedwrite p95 latency9,765 µs
Disk write · repetition 1passedwrite p99 latency14,746 µs
Disk read · repetition 1passedread bandwidth4,218 MB/s
Disk read · repetition 1passedread operations4,022 IOPS
Disk read · repetition 1passedread p50 latency7,766 µs
Disk read · repetition 1passedread p95 latency11,731 µs
Disk read · repetition 1passedread p99 latency13,828 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 1passedwrite bandwidth170.1 MB/s
Disk randwrite · repetition 1passedwrite operations41,530 IOPS
Disk randwrite · repetition 1passedwrite p50 latency733.2 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 1passedwrite p95 latency1,044 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 1passedwrite p99 latency1,204 µs
Disk randread · repetition 1passedread bandwidth220.6 MB/s
Disk randread · repetition 1passedread operations53,846 IOPS
Disk randread · repetition 1passedread p50 latency477.2 µs
Disk randread · repetition 1passedread p95 latency806.9 µs
Disk randread · repetition 1passedread p99 latency2,966 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedread bandwidth152.1 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedread operations37,146 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedread p50 latency553.0 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedread p95 latency856.1 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedread p99 latency1,012 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedwrite bandwidth65.2 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedwrite operations15,926 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedwrite p50 latency577.5 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedwrite p95 latency995.3 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 1passedwrite p99 latency1,450 µs
Disk write · repetition 2passedwrite bandwidth5,477 MB/s
Disk write · repetition 2passedwrite operations5,223 IOPS
Disk write · repetition 2passedwrite p50 latency5,669 µs
Disk write · repetition 2passedwrite p95 latency8,847 µs
Disk write · repetition 2passedwrite p99 latency16,450 µs
Disk read · repetition 2passedread bandwidth4,084 MB/s
Disk read · repetition 2passedread operations3,894 IOPS
Disk read · repetition 2passedread p50 latency7,963 µs
Disk read · repetition 2passedread p95 latency12,517 µs
Disk read · repetition 2passedread p99 latency15,270 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 2passedwrite bandwidth168.0 MB/s
Disk randwrite · repetition 2passedwrite operations41,013 IOPS
Disk randwrite · repetition 2passedwrite p50 latency741.4 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 2passedwrite p95 latency1,044 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 2passedwrite p99 latency1,204 µs
Disk randread · repetition 2passedread bandwidth234.2 MB/s
Disk randread · repetition 2passedread operations57,181 IOPS
Disk randread · repetition 2passedread p50 latency464.9 µs
Disk randread · repetition 2passedread p95 latency798.7 µs
Disk randread · repetition 2passedread p99 latency2,507 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedread bandwidth151.2 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedread operations36,904 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedread p50 latency561.2 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedread p95 latency864.3 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedread p99 latency1,028 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedwrite bandwidth64.8 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedwrite operations15,822 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedwrite p50 latency577.5 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedwrite p95 latency995.3 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 2passedwrite p99 latency1,466 µs
Disk write · repetition 3passedwrite bandwidth5,244 MB/s
Disk write · repetition 3passedwrite operations5,001 IOPS
Disk write · repetition 3passedwrite p50 latency5,865 µs
Disk write · repetition 3passedwrite p95 latency8,356 µs
Disk write · repetition 3passedwrite p99 latency17,170 µs
Disk read · repetition 3passedread bandwidth4,248 MB/s
Disk read · repetition 3passedread operations4,051 IOPS
Disk read · repetition 3passedread p50 latency7,700 µs
Disk read · repetition 3passedread p95 latency11,731 µs
Disk read · repetition 3passedread p99 latency14,090 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 3passedwrite bandwidth172.8 MB/s
Disk randwrite · repetition 3passedwrite operations42,193 IOPS
Disk randwrite · repetition 3passedwrite p50 latency725.0 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 3passedwrite p95 latency1,036 µs
Disk randwrite · repetition 3passedwrite p99 latency1,188 µs
Disk randread · repetition 3passedread bandwidth221.8 MB/s
Disk randread · repetition 3passedread operations54,152 IOPS
Disk randread · repetition 3passedread p50 latency485.4 µs
Disk randread · repetition 3passedread p95 latency880.6 µs
Disk randread · repetition 3passedread p99 latency2,802 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedread bandwidth152.3 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedread operations37,181 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedread p50 latency553.0 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedread p95 latency872.4 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedread p99 latency1,012 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedwrite bandwidth65.3 MB/s
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedwrite operations15,939 IOPS
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedwrite p50 latency569.3 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedwrite p95 latency995.3 µs
Disk randrw · repetition 3passedwrite p99 latency1,450 µs

Network performance

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
Controlled network endpoints · repetition 1skippedNo measured scoreNot measured

PostgreSQL performance

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 1passedTransactions1,681 tx/s
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 1passedAverage latency2.38 ms
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 2passedTransactions1,678 tx/s
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 2passedAverage latency2.38 ms
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 3passedTransactions1,730 tx/s
PostgreSQL memory dataset · repetition 3passedAverage latency2.31 ms
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 1passedTransactions1,590 tx/s
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 1passedAverage latency2.51 ms
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 2passedTransactions1,500 tx/s
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 2passedAverage latency2.66 ms
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 3passedTransactions1,717 tx/s
PostgreSQL storage dataset · repetition 3passedAverage latency2.33 ms

Consistency over time

Workload / repetitionOutcomeMetricValue
24-hour consistency · repetition 1skippedNo measured scoreNot measured