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When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails 361

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:46PM from the like-a-virtual-machine-without-the-machine-part dept.

Siker writes in to tell us about the experience of email transfer service YippieMove, which ditched VMware and switched to FreeBSD jails. "We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite's internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected a performance difference between running our software in a VM compared to running on the metal, but that it could be as much as 10X was a wake-up call."

Comment Re:It gets worse... (Score 2, Interesting) 176

by abtusa1234 on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @11:42AM (#18182442) Attached to: Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In

I complained to Charter (I was in a pissy mood that day) and politely asked them to either give me the IP of an alternative charter DNS server that did not perform this crap, or to tell me what data they where retaining, how was my privacy protected, how would data be used... I had an alternative DNS server address before the end of the day :)

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