[geeks] Virtual Machine Hosting

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 7, 2009, at 10:57 , Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> The CPU speed is usually not a problem, what will get you is disk  
> access
> of random reads/writes since the disks will be shared amongst all  
> the VMs.

I can verify this.

The company I work for uses a Xen machine for Subversion.

Disk access is a severe problems any time you hit the logs, which is  
pretty often with Subversion.

A lot of other apps suffer too.

Some places might have a solution for this, but several I've seen do  
not.


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Shannon Hendrix
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