"tax" AlchemyDatabase pays when virtualised

[Jak Sprats]

https://gist.github.com/747697

This test is not that conclusive, but its a start to test how much of
a "tax" running AlchemyDB as a VirtualMachine must be paid.

All tests were run from one machine to another (both w/ phenom X4 @
3.0 GHz CPUs)

The bare-metal was run on a 64bit Ubuntu 9.10
The Virtual machine was run on the same 64 bit Ubuntu 9.10 and the
Virtual Machine was a Debian 5 (32 bit), the Hypervisor was VMware
workstation 7.0.

A little bit stupid that the Virtual Machine was 32bit, but this is
just a quick nothing-special first test to get a ballpark idea ... No
special configuration was done in any of this, this is basically right
out of the box.

Results: BareMetal VM TAX
INSERT 71.6 49.6 31%
SELECT 66.5 46.1 31%
UPDATE 63.5 42.5 33%
DELETE 72.9 49.5 32%

So basically a 31.3% TAX .. almost one-third

So in this (sub-optimal) setup that is the Tax AlchemyDatabase pays
for being Virtualised

- Jak

p.s. does anyone know the ULTRA-FASTEST NativeOS+Hypervisor+VirtualOS
combination? I have heard KVM is the best at networking?