Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 17:08:52 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, "freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour Message-ID: <e22eabe7-f852-42ac-9ac4-048302163d4d@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <6d44f095-d137-456f-8194-e3430647810f@app.fastmail.com> References: <f5b8dfa6-071c-41e4-8696-feb1495884ab@freebsd.org> <66e66b9b-084b-47e4-862e-98141c47a856@app.fastmail.com> <01000191afb2427e-8bb3eb6e-81f7-48a9-bc10-d7e4e8865dd2-000000@email.amazonses.com> <6d44f095-d137-456f-8194-e3430647810f@app.fastmail.com>
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On 9/1/24 16:46, Dan Langille wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 6:26 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 9/1/24 12:09, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >>>> I'm planning on adding a new flavour of FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "Small" AMIs, >>>> which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which are >>>> optional or generally less likely to be useful for production systems: >>>> [...] >>> >>> I’m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Which means smaller instances can be used. >> >> This should have no effect on memory usage aside from the fact that >> getting rid of some of the large debug files will make freebsd-update >> use less memory. These are all bits which are never loaded from disk >> aside from that. > > The goal is to improve freebsd-update? No, the goal is to avoid wasted disk space. A t4g.nano instance costs $3/month and gp3 EBS volumes cost $0.08/GB/month, so if you shave off 4 GB of disk usage and make your EBS volumes 4 GB smaller you've reduced your instance cost by 10%. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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