From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 19:26:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6851065670 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-0602-freebsd-xen=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o1.shared.sendgrid.net (o1.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.231.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 122DF8FC13 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:26:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=3W7GzIKGHNohUUeik8Urn0s0ToI=; b=iuVlhOP2mU2g+lgaLLZloUXC8IDR 0+xunRQhyZAZ7/VSJE058KOxmJ8houE4oYPfFYJDdoPlum4WAPLqjfTWwvFZM5mK 2TaOKsGj7CnkN8exjtH9AlmgryETyb4LeCGPnmboRk3UeH3iBsSVr4aFXPARIQnE cHKP80qpbhJwom8= Received: by 10.4.35.202 with SMTP id mf34.1531.4F0353776 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:13:59 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.9.180.5]) by mi2 (SG) with ESMTP id 4f035377.2698.bfbc4e for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:13:59 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 93102 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2012 19:12:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 3 Jan 2012 19:12:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 83392 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2012 19:12:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 3 Jan 2012 19:12:51 -0000 Message-ID: <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:12:51 -0800 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111112 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bruno References: <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Sendgrid-EID: RUbAm5H8PjswBj/QH+sYVehaJogg3iBnZcyVi1bw/IwutpUlUUKgoIdK7ResfPEuNB2MU/jg2/pzTI5wYYWlx1qkTadInZhs+MnyhhhIGfMp3EernCG370LcnprKGxmyIsHLR14mg/igL8HgkO1PDw== Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Alexandre Biancalana Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:26:56 -0000 On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote:=0D > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:=0D >> What=C2=B4s is the current state of FreeBSD running on Amazon EC2 ? Is= =0D >> this stable ? Looking at Colin's status page=0D >> (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/) looks like there=C2=B4s no= =0D >> active development on that.=0D =0D I'll be publishing AMIs for 9.0-RELEASE for the 64-bit "defenestrated"=0D instances and cluster compute instances.=0D =0D Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon.=0D =0D >> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?=0D =0D Yes.=0D =0D >> I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter)=0D >> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large=0D >> and m2.xlarge instances.=0D >>=0D >> Any thoughts ?=0D =0D You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large and=0D m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax".=0D =0D -- =0D Colin Percival=0D Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve=0D Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly para= noid