When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

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."

Comments

Interesting

[kspn78]

I wonder if this would help me, I am running 2 VMWare servers on an older box and it is a little lethargic at the moment. If I could ever get to the story I might be able to find out :|

Guys - We found the iTanic customer

[Mr Thinly Sliced]

Parent poster admits to using iTanic - someone tie his hands to the tree while I call the Vet.

We will tranq him and put him in a zoo. This will mean big things for us, big things. Tours on broadway, my picture on the cover of Time....

Re:Different Operating Systems

[Anonymous Coward]

In your scenario, I'd recommend running DBAN

Re:XenServer worked for us

[machine321]

management is significantly better.

That usually solves a lot of performance problems.

Re:excellent sales story

[masshuu]

this?
+----------+
|  PLEASE  |
|  DO NOT  |
| FEED THE |
|  TROLLS  |
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    |  |
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  .\|.||/..

Re:Virtualization doesn't make sense

[MichaelSmith]

How the fuck is someone with (only) an MCSE supposed to manage a Unix system?

Easy.

Wrong tool for the job

[FranTaylor]

You might as well have said,

"Our earth moving business took a big jump in productivity when we switched from ice-cream scoops to backhoes".

Re:excellent sales story

[BaldingByMicrosoft]

TFA wasn't running ESXi? Thanks, now I can skip the read entirely. Silly TFA.

Anyway, isn't "virtualization" so last year? "Local cloud" is the groove.

Re:free beats fee most of the time

[jdfox]

True, he might have been talking about the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia . There is a certain ambiguity there. :-)

Welcome to Slashdot, "News for Nerds". You may find that its readers tend to use lots of initialisms, acronyms and computer slang, especially when discussing computing issues. If you like everything spelled out and linked for you, then you might prefer to read CNET instead.

BTW (by the way), CNET doesn't appear to stand for anything but CNET. :-)

Re:One runs on Solaris, one runs on BSD

[Capt James McCarthy]

> they probably just didn't want to bring on the wrath of lawyers for trademark infringement.

FreeBSD jails predate Solaris zones by five years.

And soon they will be called Soracle Meditation Gardens.

Re:free beats fee most of the time

[jdfox]

BSD? Never heard of it. Netcraft confirms it.

Re:free beats fee most of the time

[ccady]

When I see a term or acronym on Slashdot that don't know about, I go look up the item and learn something. I am often glad that I do. Except that goatse thing.