Acquiring and using sockets is high overhead for the VM and can become a bottleneck. We ran an experiment on virtualizing our cache servers, and with fairly identical specs the real machines had 25-50% better throughput when the machine was under load.
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Acquiring and using sockets is high overhead for the VM and can become a bottleneck. We ran an experiment on virtualizing our cache servers, and with fairly identical specs the real machines had 25-50% better throughput when the machine was under load.