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From: Benjamin Henrion <bh@udev.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Texas UML instances and OLSR+BATMAN tests
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Aaron Kaplan <aaron@lo-res.org> [071009]:
> 
> Just yesterday I had a brief talk with Herbert from vserver. He  
> mentioned that it should be ok to use different routing tables in  
> each vserver instance. If this works out then I would like to know if  
> vserver is a viable alternative. Vserver is very low overhead. One of  
> the problems that I had with UML is the high (soft-)IRQ load.
> this produces permanent context switches and no work gets done. (if  
> you start 1000 instances that is!) :)
> 
> Can somebody test what happens if you start many instances in openVZ  
> and vserver?

Many = which number?

I have started 10 of those, and it works fine on a 1500Mhz machine with
512MB of RAM on a livecd system with minimal debian filesystems on a
harddisk.

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