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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."

2 of 361 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Virtualization is good enough by Tanman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dunno, seems like $LARGE_US_BANK hasn't been doing too good a job keeping its business in order. Maybe they aren't the best run enterprise? I'm just saying . . . mismanagement is mismanagement.

  2. Re:Silly faggots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tell the truth ... you just shit yourself!

    The fact that you are proud of it indicates a mental age of 2..3 years. If you are in fact older than this, it indicates an IQ of somewhere between 60..80 (idiot/imbecile to moron).

    Please indicate which!