Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:12:51 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status Message-ID: <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <CAGF-nS6RJ5bt2mXMvTovaKfwCoOLX6i4VA2VMaqYQ%2BnQ-mQrPw@mail.gmail.com> <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: >> What´s 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´s no >> active development on that. I'll be publishing AMIs for 9.0-RELEASE for the 64-bit "defenestrated" instances and cluster compute instances. Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon. >> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ? Yes. >> 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". -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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