[Gllug] Constrained virtual machines

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Fri Dec 1 09:08:49 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:05:11PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Is anyone using VM technology that provides limits on CPU and I/O as 
> well as memory usage?

Be aware that disk performance under any VM I've seen sucks compared
to the real hardware ...  So if you're testing a database, where disk
I/O performance really matters, it's not clear the test will be fair.

Rich.

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