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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:33:46 -0500
From: Colin Wetherbee <cww@denterprises.org>
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To: TJ O'Donnell <tjo@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [SQL] Deploying PostgreSQL on virtualized hardware
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TJ O'Donnell wrote:
> I've been running PostgreSQL on a virtual server for several years
> now.  I'm using VMWare with a Windows host and Linux guest.  I've
> configured it to let Linux use a raw partition as a disk.  Before I
> used a separate partition, the virtual disk had been a Windows
> file.  Using the disk partition increased performance, but I don't
> recall now exactly how much. This is a small setup with a handful
> of users. The database contains only dozens of tables, but some
> have ~8 million rows.  I've allocated 1Mb of RAM to the virtual
> machine.

TJ,

Thanks for your input.  I was asking more about hosted elastic 
servers, like those provided by the Xen hypervisor, though.

(BTW, how did this end up on the SQL list?  I'm going to put it back 
on the general list. :) )

Colin