Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 11:19:24 -0400 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a small report from the Amazon AWS world Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOu6V2PZVvZ7ZGsO8Xbc9LnCxQAz-XvM=snEr4zakvnQCg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a11f6f21-6cd8-3087-2921-0937c6fec0e0@blastwave.org> References: <a11f6f21-6cd8-3087-2921-0937c6fec0e0@blastwave.org>
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--00000000000064ebd405e08ca65f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-n65semc4zdkai Boy, do some research On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 8:15 PM Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote: > > 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 > > --00000000000064ebd405e08ca65f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><a href=3D"https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prod= view-n65semc4zdkai">https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-n65semc4= zdkai</a></div><div><br></div><div>Boy, do some research<br></div></div><br= ><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Thu, J= un 2, 2022 at 8:15 PM Dennis Clarke <<a href=3D"mailto:dclarke@blastwave= .org">dclarke@blastwave.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gm= ail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,= 204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br> The Amazon EC2 experiment with FreeBSD 13.1 on aarch64 :<br> <br> Today I bit the bullet and trudged through the baffling config options<br> on the Amazon AWS EC2 interface to get FreeBSD 13.1 up and running. I<br> went with the r6gd.xlarge type instance which provides some mysterious<br> four core config and 32GB of memory. There is also a 237 NVMe SSD in<br> there but I had to search around to figure out where that was after the<br> instance booted up.=C2=A0 I did not see any way to get at the console and d= o<br> the installation myself because I would have gone pure ZFS. What I did<br> get was a 32GB root device thing at /dev/nda0 and the blank SSD was the<br> device /dev/nda1.<br> <br> Performance is not thrilling.=C2=A0 Nope.=C2=A0 I am still doing a few comp= ute<br> tests and also a file thrash on both the UFS and the ZFS filesystems but<br= > there is nothing to write home about thus far. What is far more scary<br> about all this is the cost of network traffic which could go well past<br> the four hundred USD a month mark on a halfway decent busy website. My<br> calculations could be way off the mark however.<br> <br> Not sure what else to say but I am still running some baseline tests.<br> Very happy to see the AMI instance offer exists for FreeBSD 13.1 on the<br> aarch64 platform but I have no idea what I am getting for my money. Yet.<br= > <br> Any questions ?<br> <br> -- <br> Dennis Clarke<br> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC<br> UNIX and Linux spoken<br> GreyBeard and suspenders optional<br> <br> </blockquote></div> --00000000000064ebd405e08ca65f--
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