From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 5 22:59:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from backup.dagupan.com (www.psysc.org.ph [206.101.69.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA5B37B41C for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by apmail.dagupan.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:59:32 +0800 Message-ID: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340EAA@apmail.dagupan.com> From: francisv@dagupan.com To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: about Jail Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:59:24 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Using DDRAM and probably a RAID storage system would surely make it faster. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Jung [mailto:daniel@interq.or.jp] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:47 PM To: Anders Nor Berle Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about Jail 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message