From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 22:55:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC63F106564A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 22:55:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guy.helmer@palisadesystems.com) Received: from ps-1-a.compliancesafe.com (ps-1-a.compliancesafe.com [216.81.161.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16EF8FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 22:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.palisadesystems.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ps-1-a.compliancesafe.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q05Mt087039224; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:55:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from guy.helmer@palisadesystems.com) Received: from guysmbp.dyn.palisadesys.com (GuysMBP.dyn.palisadesys.com [172.16.2.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.palisadesystems.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q05MsqfB008952 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:54:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from guy.helmer@palisadesystems.com) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 mail.palisadesystems.com q05MsqfB008952 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=palisadesystems.com; s=mail; t=1325804096; bh=E3cZswDH7tIf2PV2OR6hHbaQ/IXrZstTBWCwQrDcvj0=; l=128; h=Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:References:To; b=s/YJbw+FzVjddfmmn5PV3k3GOsPPekPksJOtMI8csYIBtnNXRL60ZLNKjeve8Wrqf xQ0unL8/OFR8xB4dm+4i9cbjOs12VCkhTxJvfvD4gYRSgjM53QPiLXQBedKK9YjH/+ rsaMkbufYrB8RH6aCd+dhGS4LDe91Ls3dY9bZ8KU= Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Guy Helmer In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:54:51 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <2ADD8BE6-31F1-4690-8966-8DF8B9968E10@palisadesystems.com> References: To: Alexandre Biancalana X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (mail.palisadesystems.com [172.16.1.5]); Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:54:56 -0600 (CST) X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner-ID: q05MsqfB008952 X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Palisade-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-1.628, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, RP_8BIT 1.27) X-Palisade-MailScanner-From: guy.helmer@palisadesystems.com X-Spam-Status: No X-PacketSure-Scanned: Yes Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:55:54 -0000 On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > Hi lists, >=20 > What=B4s 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=B4s no > active development on that. >=20 > Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ? >=20 > 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. >=20 > Any thoughts ? I haven't stress-tested any EC2 systems recently, but when I did late = last summer/fall, they worked fine for me. I had to do some tuning of = the nmbclusters to handle the data rates I was using, but I think that = would be expected even if running on bare metal. Guy -------- This message has been scanned by ComplianceSafe, powered by Palisade's PacketSure.