Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:14:37 -0400 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: "freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: a small report from the Amazon AWS world Message-ID: <a11f6f21-6cd8-3087-2921-0937c6fec0e0@blastwave.org>
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The Amazon EC2 experiment with FreeBSD 13.1 on aarch64 : Today I bit the bullet and trudged through the baffling config options on the Amazon AWS EC2 interface to get FreeBSD 13.1 up and running. I went with the r6gd.xlarge type instance which provides some mysterious four core config and 32GB of memory. There is also a 237 NVMe SSD in there but I had to search around to figure out where that was after the instance booted up. I did not see any way to get at the console and do the installation myself because I would have gone pure ZFS. What I did get was a 32GB root device thing at /dev/nda0 and the blank SSD was the device /dev/nda1. Performance is not thrilling. Nope. I am still doing a few compute tests and also a file thrash on both the UFS and the ZFS filesystems but there is nothing to write home about thus far. What is far more scary about all this is the cost of network traffic which could go well past the four hundred USD a month mark on a halfway decent busy website. My calculations could be way off the mark however. Not sure what else to say but I am still running some baseline tests. Very happy to see the AMI instance offer exists for FreeBSD 13.1 on the aarch64 platform but I have no idea what I am getting for my money. Yet. Any questions ? -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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