jail performance questions

[Ng Pheng Siong]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:48:21PM -0400, V. Jones wrote:
> I've found several examples showing how to set the jails up.  
> My questions involve system requirements.  Assuming plenty of 
> disk space, 1GB ram and a dual processor PIII 1.13Ghz system, 
> how many jails can I run?  Would I notice a significant 
> performance hit if, for example, I run three jails?

I haven't noticed performance degradation, but my jails aren't doing much.

There are several providers selling jail-based virtual servers.

I didn't consult the source, but my understanding is that a jail marks
individual processes, so, e.g., if a jail runs just one process, that's the
(operational, I don't know about startup) overhead for that jail.


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