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

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