Re: [Lxc-users] Benchmarking with LXC

2010-06-10 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Richard Thornton wrote: Hi, I wish to use netperf to benchmark a firewall appliance but I only want to use a single physical 10GbE adapter. So I have my PC and the firewall. I wasy thinking two LXC containers, netperf-client and netperf-server, basically I want to

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/10/2010 09:54 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: BTW, a second option is lessfs. http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the kernel from 2.6.32. See:

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: BTW, a second option is lessfs. http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the kernel from 2.6.32. See: http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/330589/ Not

Re: [Lxc-users] Benchmarking with LXC

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Thornton
Gordon wrote: Are you sure it's wise to even consider LXC here? And can one PC really keep up with 20Gb/sec of Ethernet traffic? i.e. How do you know the bottleneck here won't be the PC rather than the firewall appliance... I'd seriously consider using 2 PCs - firstly back to back, then with the

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On 06/10/2010 11:25 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 06/09/2010 11:47 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: On 06/09/2010 10:46 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 06/09/2010 09:08 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: On 06/09/2010 08:45 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Is there a feature that allows

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/10/2010 09:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: BTW, a second option is lessfs. http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 Interesting project, but again, in this context, similar problem to btrfs (or any other FS) - without VServer type COW hard-links, no RAM savings to go with the space

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Gordon Henderson gor...@drogon.net wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: BTW, a second option is lessfs. http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the kernel from 2.6.32. i'm