Re: [Condor-users] Condor and VMware server, version 1 or 2, which one is better?

["Matt Hope" <Matt.Hope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume each VM requires a chunk of non paged pool rather bigger than
normal processes which impacts the overall memory available to other
processes without swapping.

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[mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Burnett
Sent: 12 March 2009 22:16
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Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Condor and VMware server, version 1 or
2,which one is better?

Hey Alex:

2GB should be fine; that said, I've started using 4GB on my machines
only because it seems that the VMs are a little snappier.  The extra
ram, as far as I've experienced doesn't do much to speed up the host
when running a regular work-load with no VMs, but it does seem to
improve the hosts overall responsiveness when running VMs.

Regards,
-B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users- 
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alas, Alex [FEDI]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Condor and VMware server, version 1 or 2, 
> which one is better?
> 
> Ben,
> Thank you for your answer. We are not going to run VM jobs. They are 
> vanilla jobs to be specific and we are going to follow your 
> suggestions about installing the VM machines in a separate disk and 
> they are going to be running in the background as you mentioned below 
> so we are going to use VMware server 2.0. Right now the systems have 
> 2.0 GB of RAM but we can grow to more because these are 64 bit 
> systems, we don't know if that is sufficient but it gives us an 
> starting point, we are going to start testing the machines and If we 
> notice any performance issues we can always through more RAM.
> Thanks again for your help,
> Alex
> 

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