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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by keben <rs...@gmail.com> on 2011/06/20 10:39:07 UTC

Virtualizing CouchDB & Performance?

Hi,
i would like to have some feedback on how couchdb is behaving when virtualized?
What should be considered whether to take the choice to host it on a physical 
server or VM.
Any feedback and return of experience / issue would be very helpful

Thanks a lot

Re: Virtualizing CouchDB & Performance?

Posted by Randall Leeds <ra...@gmail.com>.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:39, keben <rs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> i would like to have some feedback on how couchdb is behaving when virtualized?
> What should be considered whether to take the choice to host it on a physical
> server or VM.
> Any feedback and return of experience / issue would be very helpful
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>

In general the hardest part of virtualization will be getting good
disk performance, though I think virtualized block devices are better
than they used to be. To some extent this can be compensated for by
getting a VM with a larger amount of RAM so that the OS can keep more
disk pages cached.

-Randall