[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] mail server on a xen guest?
Hi, On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM, John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RAID5 isn't going to be good for mail: a lot of the disk-writes are going to > be very small and there are going to be a hell of a lot of them, especially > with that kind of incoming load. Actually, with that kind of incoming load > I don't think you're going to want to run the mail server on anything other > than the bare metal anyway: virtual machines work well when you have servers > that are individually relatively lightly loaded and it doesn't look as > though yours is. Are you speaking from experience or is this just a well educated guess? Are many small disk writes something that Xen is particullary not good with? Best, Peter _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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