Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:55:29 -0200 From: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com> To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status Message-ID: <CAGF-nS5t84FsQ2RkMcnisyOH02FMRPyu8TdqWKVCF0WeVWu9pQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> References: <CAGF-nS6RJ5bt2mXMvTovaKfwCoOLX6i4VA2VMaqYQ%2BnQ-mQrPw@mail.gmail.com> <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: >>> What´s 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´s no >>> active development on that. > > I'll be publishing AMIs for 9.0-RELEASE for the 64-bit "defenestrated" > instances and cluster compute instances. Thank you for the responses guys. > > Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon. > >>> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ? > > Yes. I´d asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ? > >>> 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. >>> >>> Any thoughts ? > > You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large and > m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax". By "paying the Windows tax" you mean that it run in HVM instead of PV Xen mode ?help
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