[Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

[Christoph Mitasch]

Hello Ulli,

thanks for the interesting numbers.

What kind of networking did you use in LXC. Veth?

Regards,
Christoph

On 05/23/2011 01:22 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
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> A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX:
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> ESX:
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> framstag at diaspora:~: fexsend  -i unifex /tmp/2GB.tmp .
> Server/User: http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
> /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 87 s (24105 kB/s)
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> LXC:
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> framstag at diaspora:~: fexsend  -i flupp /tmp/2GB.tmp .
> Server/User: http://flupp/framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
> /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 24 s (87381 kB/s)
> 
> 
> The ESX host has about twice of native CPU and disk power than the LXC
> host. ESX has 10 Gb/s, LXC has 1 GB/s. Both VMs run the same software.
> 
>