Re: [Monotone-devel] Server broken

[Jack Lloyd]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:51:19AM -0400, John Bailey wrote:

> Virtual machines, especially those provided by OpenVZ and Virtuozzo, are not 
> the
> greatest things in the world--the seller can overcommit the physical hosts or
> the hosts can be under-powered, and any one virtual machine can flood disk I/O
> out to the point that it kills I/O performance for other VM's and the other 
> VM's
> can never tell why.  These factors result in the VM being unacceptably slow,
> especially in disk I/O--this makes IMAP extremely slow to respond and can make
> even simple shell work unbearably slow.  I've seen this particular problem on
> every Virtuozzo or OpenVZ VM I've ever had access to.

Really this just depends on the provider, though. I've been using an
OpenVZ instance as my web/mail/shell server for ~3 years and it's been
great for me. (The provider I'm with is a bit pricier than most, OTOH
- though still way cheaper than a dedicated box).

-Jack