On 2012-10-15 23:02, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> 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%
>

+1

Same here FreeBSD with 10-20 jails effectively isolating services works 
fine even on net5501 and the smaller (outdated) net4501 unit.

/Uffe



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