On Tue June 15 2010, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:14:26PM +0200, Andre Timmermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 03.06.2010, 21:32 +0200 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> >
> > > > Am particularly interested to know how many virtual servers
> > > > can be spawned in a single host?
> > >
> > > we stopped testing around 40.000 guests on a single
> > > host, because it became somwhat slow and the 64k
> > > process limit was an issue back then ....
> >
> > I am pretty sure that it is POSSIBLE to start several hundrets or even
> > thousends of guests on one physical machine, but the real question is
> > how many guests are REASONABLE on on physical machine.
> >
> > In my experience the main impact is I/O on normal server hardware (e.g
> > Dual Intel Xeon CPU / 8 cores / 12 GB RAM / two disks with raid 1)
>
> Something which can be adressed with SSDs.
>
You wouldn't by chance be using one of these things:
http://www.seamicro.com/
I.E: Are you dealing with Atoms one at a time or in bunches of 512?
Mike
Received on Tue Jun 15 14:00:56 2010