Benchmark Workloads

Spare Cores runs standardized benchmark workloads across cloud servers to measure performance and cost efficiency. This page describes each benchmark family and workload, including units of measurement, configuration options, and score distributions.
Benchmarks

app

1 workload

app

Static web server

Serving smaller (1-65 kb) and larger (256-512 kb) files using a static HTTP server (binserve), and benchmarking each workload (wrk) using variable number of threads and connections on the same server.

Benchmark Details

Benchmark ID
app:static_web
Unit of Measurement
rps
Server Types Evaluated
0
Total Measurements
0
Range of Measurements
N/A

Configuration Options

FieldDescriptionExample Values
threads Total number of threads used by wrk. —
connections Total number of HTTP connections kept open by wrk. —
framework_version Version number of both binserve and wrk. —

Score Distribution

No distribution data available

bogomips

1 workload

bogomips

BogoMips

A crude measurement of CPU speed by the Linux kernel. This is NOT usable for performance comparisons among different CPUs, but might be useful to check if a processor is in the range of similar processors. As often quoted, BogoMips measures "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing".

Benchmark Details

Benchmark ID
bogomips
Unit of Measurement
Millions of instructions per second (MIPS)
Server Types Evaluated
2,614
Total Measurements
2,614
Range of Measurements
50 – 7.6KMillions of instructions per second (MIPS)

Score Distribution

bw_mem

1 workload

bw_mem

Memory bandwidth

Benchmark Details

Benchmark ID
bw_mem
Unit of Measurement
Server Types Evaluated
Total Measurements
Range of Measurements

Configuration Options

FieldDescriptionExample Values

Score Distribution