also sprach Mark Janssen <maniac@maniac.nl> [2002.01.08.1847 +0100]: > I don't think this will work. I haven't used UML that much yet, but I > fear that you will not be able to run hundreds of UML's on a single > machine. You might be able to run 10 maybe 20 virtual linux-es on your > box, but it has a rather large overhead compared to a real box without > virtual linux boxes. quality assurance won't make me run more than 15 clients per machine anyway. so we'll see. it *does* have a large overhead, but on a test machine (P5-133, 96Mb), it runs quite quickly actually... i stripped the UM kernel to the bare minimum... > Yeah, it's really nice and secure to boot... but is the overhead and > administrative hassle worth it ?? it's not that much of a hassle actually. most of it was kernel compiles. now i simply get to play with postfix and bind, which i do anyway... > Especially if you are going to be running bind9, apache, postfix and > whatnot in every VM you will be having all those processes in memory all > the time (without them sharing the memory they would usually do when > they were running on the same machine (real vs virtual). valid point. still working on that one... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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