Subject: Re: [vserver] Re: [Freedombox-discuss] A software architecture for the FreedomBox
From: Martin Fick <mogulguy@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:59:09 -0700 (PDT)

 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> On 11-04-13 at 05:49pm, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 05:06:23PM +0200, Rob van der
> Hoeven wrote:
> > 
> > > One of the first things you have to do when
> building a system like 
> > > the FreedomBox is figure out the software
> architecture. I have come 
> > > up with an interesting architecture that is made
> of Linux Containers 
> > > (Virtual
> > 
> > Using Linux vserver guests for service separation
> (jails on steroids) 
> > is an excellent idea, actually.
> 
> I find it interesting, but am sceptical: I believe each
> jail consume 
> separate memory for their libraries - i.e. cannot benefit
> from shared 
> libraries.  So I worry about memory consumption.

While that is a good concern, vserver unification 
can eliminate much of this problem if the vservers 
use the same shared libraries (same versions).

-Martin