On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:58:18PM -0400, J wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:30, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Now, I haven't used its default config, but on a VMware server (that is,
> > expensive commercial type with 32 GB of RAM, paid VMware ESX and so on),
> > we tried using a more or less default Fedora and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu one
> > is noticeably slower. Again, these are more or less default desktop
> > installs (for various reasons, we didn't go with the server or more
> > minimal installs---these are for our developers.)
>
> Out of curiosity, when running Ubuntu on VMWare, do you run the stock
> Ubuntu kernel or the -virtual one? We actually have a kernel designed
> to be run in virtual machines which may be a bit snappier than the
> stock desktop kernels.
We've been running the stock. However, I'm actually going to reinstall
it, maybe next week--was supposed to be this week, but you work in IT,
you know how THAT goes--with a more minimal installation. These
machines, web scrapers, are very heavily loaded, with a load, usually,
of at least 7 or 8. We're also running 10 of them on this machine.
(Semi-ironically, a Dell)
So, when I put in the new one, I'll definitely use the virtual kernel.
Thanks, as always.
--
Scott Robbins
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