On 02/11/2010 12:02 PM, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > On 2/11/10 11:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> I run Cyrus on a Linode VM. I've been *very* happy with them. And it >> is just a 'normal' virtual server and not any odd-ball cloud thing. >> > > > I wonder how people deal with the disk I/O deficiency under virtual > systems such as VMWare. We decided not to virtualize any processes > that were disk I/O intensive. People stripe EBS volumes, but you're restricted by network IO. Some rough number for I/O speeds: http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/ http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/ http://victortrac.com/ Z ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
