From: James Gibson (twistedhammer_at_subdimension.com)
Date: Mon 07 Jan 2002 - 12:18:09 GMT
go take a hard look at vunify. and go read the design docs for it
(the FAQ, etc..) if you have a vserver with 270 megs of 'stuff'
roughly 90%* of that will be binaries, man-pages and stuff like
that.. stuff that doesn't need to be changed or unique or writable..
with vunify you only have to have ONE copy of that stuff for the
whole 250 vservers, you simply make them immutable and make
hardlinks for each vserver.. this works because the vservers will
have the CAP_IMMUTABLE (or whatever it is..) capability
removed.. This now leaves you with a unique set of 27 megs of stuff
that needs to exists for each vserver.. which comes out a little over
7 gigs for the whole enchilada of 250 vservers (ignoring for
arguments sake the host environment..).
James Gibson
* a good guess... I could be off.. =)
> Hi,
>
> That doesn't make sense to me at all. If my goal is to host 250
> VServers, then I'm in big trouble if the smallest install is
> 270MB. That would be 50GB and that doesn't include the user
> files!
>
> I was thinking that a basic install could be 20 MB. Is that
> possible? I'll start building basic installs and see how small I
> can get it, but there must be somebody out there who already has
> this down pat and knows what is the smallest practical size
> install for Vservers with typical functionality (based on RH
> 7.2).
>
> Gil_at_Vidals.net
>
> >
> > I've got a default vserver install down to 270mb in size
> > that's lost some of
> > the extra languages for compiling software but still includes
> > things like
> > perl and gcc. I suspect that you need to look at vbuild and
> > vunify for
> > linking gcc, perl etc to the packages on the host server. From
> > memory
> > someones saved about 70mb doing these two packages alone.
> >
> > I'm also interested in getting a slimmed down vserver so if
> > anyone can beat
> > 270mb and still keep sufficient functionality let me know :-)
> >
> > I'll send you are vs.conf file if you email direct. It's not
> > that complex.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John Lyons
> > DomainCity
> > http://www.domaincity.co.uk
> > support_at_domaincity.co.uk
> > ICQ 74187012
> >
> >
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