Cyrus on Amazon EC2 and EBS?

[Zachariah Mully]

On 02/11/2010 12:02 PM, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
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> On 2/11/10 11:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> I run Cyrus on a Linode VM.  I've been *very* happy with them.  And it
>> is just a 'normal' virtual server and not any odd-ball cloud thing.
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> I wonder how people deal with the disk I/O deficiency under virtual
> systems such as VMWare.   We decided not to virtualize any processes
> that were disk I/O intensive.

People stripe EBS volumes, but you're restricted by network IO.

Some rough number for I/O speeds:

http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/

http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/

http://victortrac.com/

Z