On Oct 15, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Philippe Vanhaesendonck wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:43 +0300, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: >>> ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. >>> It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would >>> be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and maybe some spam >>> filtering. The number of emails would be somewhere in the 10s per day >>> or so, so i guess that won't be a problem. My main question would be >>> if it's responsive enough to be usable. Does anyone have any >>> experience with virtualisation on an atom ? >> >> You'll burn lots of scarce resources just running the virtualization >> itself. The overhead is not small. Since these services are designed >> to run together smoothly on the same machine, you might consider taking >> the performance boost and running them all without virtualization. >> > > I would consider Linux Containers (LXC). It is not 'full virtualization', > but it is lightweight and would give enough separation for what you are > looking for...
I've had excellent luck with FreeBSD jails in such setups. The overhead is << 1% Warner _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
