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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. Re:excellent sales story by masshuu · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    --
    O.o
  2. Wrong tool for the job by FranTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

  3. Re:free beats fee most of the time by jdfox · · Score: 5, Funny
    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. :-)