[Gllug] Constrained virtual machines

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Thu Nov 30 15:41:17 UTC 2006


paul at ma1.se wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
>> Is anyone using VM technology that provides limits on CPU and I/O as 
>> well as memory usage?
>>
>> What I'd like to be able to do is run a set of database tests with 
>> varying configuration settings. I'm not really concerned with absolute 
>> numbers, but I'll need to scale CPU and I/O to generate some useful 
>> figures.
>>
>> Any ideas that don't involve an IBM mainframe (and do involve 
>> Linux/BSD)? Free/open is good but $$$/closed might well be acceptable.
>>
>> TIA
>>
> 
> Consider OpenVZ with dynamic resource guarantee's:
> 
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Category:UBC

Ta. Nothing obvious about disk I/O, but I'll investigate further.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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