Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:46:13 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Colin Percival" <cperciva@tarsnap.com>, "Application Certification Support via freebsd-cloud" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour Message-ID: <6d44f095-d137-456f-8194-e3430647810f@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <01000191afb2427e-8bb3eb6e-81f7-48a9-bc10-d7e4e8865dd2-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <f5b8dfa6-071c-41e4-8696-feb1495884ab@freebsd.org> <66e66b9b-084b-47e4-862e-98141c47a856@app.fastmail.com> <01000191afb2427e-8bb3eb6e-81f7-48a9-bc10-d7e4e8865dd2-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 6:26 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 9/1/24 12:09, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >>> I'm planning on adding a new flavour of FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "Small" AMIs, >>> which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which are >>> optional or generally less likely to be useful for production systems: >>> [...] >> >> I’m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Which means smaller instances can be used. > > This should have no effect on memory usage aside from the fact that > getting rid of some of the large debug files will make freebsd-update > use less memory. These are all bits which are never loaded from disk > aside from that. The goal is to improve freebsd-update? -- Dan Langille dan@langille.orghome | help
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