Re: PG under OpenVZ?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:53 PM, François Beausoleil
<francois(at)teksol(dot)info> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've found an old thread on OpenVZ:
>
> (2008): http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-03/msg00076.php
>
> And a more recent question that scared me a bit:
>
> (2011): http://serverfault.com/questions/281783/running-mongodb-with-openvz
>
> On the PostgreSQL general mailing list, I've only found 54 results when searching for OpenVZ. I'm wondering if OpenVZ is simply unpopular, or not used at all for PG. What experiences do you have with OpenVZ? Any performance problems?
>
> We're buying bare metal to run our clusters on, and the supplier is late delivering the machines. They suggested lending us a machine and run PostgreSQL under OpenVZ. When the real hardware is ready, we'd migrate the VZ over to the new physical servers. Thoughts on this?
>
> I have no experience with OpenVZ itself, so if you have general comments about it's stability and/or performance, even unrelated to PostgreSQL, I'd appreciate.

I run all my PG productions/tests servers on openvz, you just have to
be careful to have swap activated, and SHMPAGES tuned, as well as
SHMMAX.

Otherwise it runs like a charm.

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