Odoo virtual memory on VM

Odoo virtual memory on VM

Odoo virtual memory on VM is a critical issue. Why? Although datacnters are now thriving with VM instances, one has to keep in mind that Odoo was originally designed to be implemented on physical systems. Among the main differences, one must keep in mind that all VMs (Virtual Machines), droplets, instances and other emulated environments do not use any swap partition at all. And yet, SWAP is the guardian of stability when your environment starts falling short on memory…

As you can see, VM performanc is affected by the type of swap. Yet, absence of swap can be lethal to system […] Read more

Odoo postgreSQL on a VM

Odoo postgreSQL on a VM

Although the official position is to avoid installing Odoo on a VM, I found out over the years that PostgreSQL had improved a whole lot since version 9.2 and it was not foolish to consider a VM under Vsphere as a potential candidate for a production environment.

Odoo & postgreSQL inside a VM

vPostgres 9.2 inherits all the performance improvements made in PostgreSQL 9.2 from upstream and features good out-of-box performance in most situations. vSphere is known for great out-of-box performance for common enterprise workloads. As a result, we refer to the performance best practices for vSphere and PostgreSQL for general performance […] Read more