Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:31:36 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status Message-ID: <4F04B728.3020708@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGF-nS5t84FsQ2RkMcnisyOH02FMRPyu8TdqWKVCF0WeVWu9pQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGF-nS6RJ5bt2mXMvTovaKfwCoOLX6i4VA2VMaqYQ%2BnQ-mQrPw@mail.gmail.com> <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> <CAGF-nS5t84FsQ2RkMcnisyOH02FMRPyu8TdqWKVCF0WeVWu9pQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/04/12 11:55, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > 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: >>>> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ? >> >> Yes. > > IŽd asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable > enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ? The HVM instances are very stable. >>>> 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 ? Yes, the 64-bit instances (except cluster compute) are running HVM, which is only available by having EC2 think that you're running Windows. So Amazon bills you for the cost of a Windows instance, including license fee. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoidhelp
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