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+1 Same here FreeBSD with 10-20 jails effectively isolating services works fine even on net5501 and the smaller (outdated) net4501 unit.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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
