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When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-virtual-machine-without-the-machine-part dept.

Siker writes in to tell us about the experience of email transfer service YippieMove, which ditched VMware and switched to FreeBSD jails. "We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite's internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected a performance difference between running our software in a VM compared to running on the metal, but that it could be as much as 10X was a wake-up call."

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  1. Well, duh! by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You ask that the OS be put into a virtual machine, would you not expect a big performance hit??? It is only common sense to anyone with any basic computer knowledge. You are adding another layer between the hardware and the program, what do you think would happen?

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