From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Feb 20 19:31:03 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE4214FD8E5 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (mail.tarsnap.com [54.86.246.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8648FECC for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 66841 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2019 19:32:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO exbuntu.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by ec2-107-20-205-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2019 19:32:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 88469 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2019 19:31:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 20 Feb 2019 19:31:08 -0000 Subject: Re: Amazon AMIs To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: From: Colin Percival Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=cperciva@freebsd.org; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQGhBElrAAcRBACDfDys4ZtK+ErCJ1HAzYeteKpm3OEsvT/49AjUTLihkF79HhIKrCQU+1KC zv7BwHCMLb6hq30As9L7iFKG7n5QFLFC4Te/VcITUnWHMG/c3ViLOfJGvi+9/nOEHaM1dVJY D6tEp5yM1nHmVQpo9932j4KGuGFR0LhOK5IHXOSfGwCgxSFDPdgxe2OEjWxjGgY+oV3EafcD +JROXCTjlcQiG/OguQH4Vks3mhHfFnEppLxTkDuYgHZQiUtpcT9ssH5khgqoTyMar05OUdAj ZIhNbWDh4LgTj+7ZmvLhXT5Zxw8LX9d7T36aTB8XDQSenDqEtinMWOb0TCBBLbsB8EFG1WTT ESbZci9jJS5yhtktuZoY/eM8uXMD/3k4FWFO80VRRkELSp+XSy/VlSQjyi/rhl2nQq/oOA9F oJbDaB0yq9VNhxP+uFBzBWSqeIX0t1ZWLtNfVFr4TRP5hihI5ICrg/0OpqgisKsU2NFe9xyO hyJLYmfD8ebpDJ/9k30C7Iju9pVrwLm1QgS4S2fqJRcR+U4WbjvP7CgStCVDb2xpbiBQZXJj aXZhbCA8Y3BlcmNpdmFAdGFyc25hcC5jb20+iGEEExECACEFAklrALYCGwMHCwkIBwMCAQQV AggDBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQOM7KaQxqam6/igCgn+z2k3V5ggNppmWrZstt1U2lugsAoL7L wS9V9yLtil3oWmHtwpUqYruEuQINBElrAAcQCAD3ZLMIsP4CIDoJORg+YY0lqLVBgcnF7pFb 4Uy2+KvdWofN+DKH61rZLjgXXkNE9M4EQC1B4lGttBP8IY2gs41y3AUogGdyFbidq99rCBz7 LTsgARHwFxZoaHmXyiZLEU1QZuMqwPZV1mCviRhN5E3rRqYNXVcrnXAAuhBpvNyj/ntHvcDN 2/m+ochiuBYueU4kX3lHya7sOj+mTsndcWmQ9soOUyr8O0r/BG088bMn4qqtUw4dl5/pglXk jbl7uOOPinKf0WVd2r6M0wLPJCD4NPHrCWRLLLAjwfjrtoSRvXxDbXhCdgGBa72+K8eYLzVs hgq7tJOoBWzjVK6XRxR7AAMGB/9Mo3iJ2DxqDecd02KCB5BsFDICbJGhPltU7FwrtbC7djSb XUrwsEVLHi4st4cbdGNCWCrp0BRezXZKohKnNAPFOTK++ZfgeKxrV2sJod+Q9RILF86tQ4XF 7A7Yme5hy92t/WgiU4vc/fWbgP8gV/19f8nunaT2E9NSa70mZFjZNu4iuwThoUUO5CV3Wo0Y UISsnRK8XD1+LR3A2qVyLiFRwh/miC1hgLFCTGCQ3GLxZeZzIpYSlGdQJ0L5lixW5ZQD9r1I 8i/8zhE6qRFAM0upUMI3Gt1Oq2w03DiXrZU0Fu/R8Rm8rlnkQKA+95mRTUq1xL5P5NZIi4gJ Z569OPMFiEkEGBECAAkFAklrAAcCGwwACgkQOM7KaQxqam41igCfbaldnFTu5uAdrnrghESv EI3CAo8AoLkNMks1pThl2BJNRm4CtTK9xZeH Message-ID: <8a139c9c-b98b-4a54-1d7c-0ea1e3dc7a72@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:31:08 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 5B8648FECC X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.97 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.976,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14618, ipnet:54.86.0.0/16, country:US]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.999,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:31:03 -0000 On 2/20/19 3:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Question:  Why is m4.large the recommended instance type?  Surely we'd be > better served and present users with a better experience by recommending an m5 > instance as one of the more modern and higher performance types? Last time I looked at this, we weren't handling hotplug/hotunplug of "NVMe" disks properly on the m5/c5/etc. instances. I opted to recommend the instance which completely works rather than the one with slightly better performance... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid