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Almost nothing in most cases, but it depends on what you're doing. Take a look at the benchmarks for lxc. http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/kernel-nam
by fintler 13y ago
Almost nothing in most cases, but it depends on what you're doing. Take a look at the benchmarks for lxc.
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/kernel-namespaces/network/benchs/ http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/kernel-namespaces...
Postgres is a beast tho (albeit a cute and friendly beast), it's probably doing something weird that lxc won't like.
- shykes 13y agoThat's correct, you can approximate the overhead of LXC (and any other similar containerization such as OpenVZ, Solaris Zones, BSD jails etc.) as zero. In terms of performance they are closer to chroot than to a virtual machine.