[mythtv-users] Xen and Mythtv and Mysql
Justin The Cynical
cynical at penguinness.org
Mon Apr 7 21:14:34 UTC 2008
Chris Isip wrote:
> How safe is it to use xen virtual machines to run mysql, mythtv, etc. I am
> building my new mythtv server and have just started tinkering with this. I
> am thinking of running mysql in a 10 GB vm with 1000 megs of ram, mythtv in
> a 5 GB vm with 500 megs of ram with CentosPlus in LVM ext3 and swap. I
> will be running other servers as well but those two are the ones relevant to
> this list. Has anyone tried this and if you have, what are your experiences
> as far as stability and what disk space and ram considerations do you
> recommend. I will be running Centos Plus.
While I've not use Xen, I have played with VMWare server for SQL and
slave backend.
The slave backend worked fine (until a VMWare upgrade b0rked the image
somehow) for commercial flagging recordings and such via NFS.
This may be related to the host system in my case, but I found that if
anything hit the SQL server hand enough (i.e. MythMusic updating the DB
after a file scan), it bogged down the host system that other VM's and
anything running on the host would slow down enough to cause time-outs
and such (I would loose SSH sessions, or IMAP access to the mail server
would fail).
I've since moved the SQL server over to a spare Ultra 10 Sparc I had
collecting dust.
The Sparc: 440 MHz, 256 RAM, Debian Etch for Sparc.
The SQL VM: 8 gig 'drive' and 128 megs of RAM running Debian Etch.
The host: Pentium D 930 (dual core, 3 Ghz per core) with 2 gigs of RAM,
Foxconn motherboard, Intel chipset.
And, as always, YMMV.
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