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Date:      Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:54:51 -0600
From:      Guy Helmer <guy.helmer@palisadesystems.com>
To:        Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status
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On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:

> Hi lists,
>=20
> What=B4s is the current state of FreeBSD running on Amazon EC2 ? Is
> this stable ? Looking at Colin's status page
> (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/) looks like there=B4s no
> active development on that.
>=20
> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?
>=20
> I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter)
> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large
> and m2.xlarge instances.
>=20
> Any thoughts ?

I haven't stress-tested any EC2 systems recently, but when I did late =
last summer/fall, they worked fine for me. I had to do some tuning of =
the nmbclusters to handle the data rates I was using, but I think that =
would be expected even if running on bare metal.

Guy

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