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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" AM=
Is,
>>> which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which a=
re
>>> optional or generally less likely to be useful for production system=
s:
>>> [...]
>>=20
>> I=E2=80=99m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Wh=
ich 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?

--=20
  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org



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