> -----Original Message----- > From: TerryE [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 1 August 2011 9:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Wolf Halton > Subject: Re: Questions: LAMP and PHPBB for OpenOffice.org > > Hi Wolf, > > Long time, no speak. It would be good to catch up. > > On 31/07/11 23:15, Wolf Halton wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > Welcome to the party! > > I have heard that database software runs less well on VMs and I am > > working on developing a project using postgresql at work to test that. > > > Yup, but the main issue here is for I/O intensive apps, unless the > virtualisation technology has accelerated I/O paths (for example VMware ESX > does this). With the forums if the VM has a 2Gb or more then enough > content is memory cached that I/O performance isn't really an issue > whatever the VM technology. > > MediaWiki is a different story. It is D/B heavy. However, most of the > current > access is guest access so using a Squid or Varnish cache would drop the > database I/O by a factory of up to 10 with current transaction patterns. We > can work these issues. And yes, I can move back from MySQL to PostgreSQL > as the forums used to run on this in the past, but its another task on the > migration plan that I would prefer to avoid. > > Regards Terry
Hi Terry, I have no issues with mysql, we have a few under VMs and are ok, we could move to postgres at a later date if needed - if we went that far I'd also consider moving to FreeBSD. Anyway, for now, can you give me some Ubuntu VM specs so I can create them for the Forums and the Wiki -- we can then get them setup and working as a test and ready for a final dump/load when we switch over, in the meantime we can check the loads of the VM hosts etc to be sure all will be ok. Just amount of RAM and disk space required should be all I need - and 1 or 2 cpu , then I'll get an Ubuntu VM up for each. We try and stick to LTS releases so will get it to 10.04.3 LTS version unless you have a reason we should use a later Ubuntu release. Thanks Gav...
