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From: Daniel Jung <daniel@interq.or.jp>
To: Anders Nor Berle <debolaz@debolaz.com>
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Subject: Re: about Jail
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Hi Anders,

Can you tell me how many Jails you have running on your production machine
 and what kind of spec for the host machine? I totally agree with you 
on putting faster and more RAMs to support many Jail as possible.

Cheers,

Daniel Jung 

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Anders Nor Berle wrote:

> >
> > Hi fellow freebsd users,
> >
> > Going through the isp archive, I found useful information about Jail. There are few
> > comments where someone mentioned that Jail is not suitable  for a large scale domain
> > hosting due to overhead. I assume that overhead here refers to disk usage for
> > creating an each jail environment. But, since large IDE drives are so cheap these
> > days, I don't really consider it  overhead. To those who are providing domain hosting
> > with Jail, how do you  usually set up a machine and how many Jails do you have on
> > each machine?
> >
> 
> I see no other overhead than disk usage either on my systems, so I assume that must be
> it. I set it up the pretty standard way described in jail(8). I have some custom patches
> that allows things like top to run without kernel memory access too. Only limit for the
> number of jails to run on a machine I've run into are disk and memory.
> 
> - Anders Nor Berle
> 
> 
> 





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