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:=0D > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wro= te:=0D >> On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote:=0D >>> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:=0D >>>> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?=0D >>=0D >> Yes.=0D > =0D > I=B4d asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable=0D > enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ?=0D =0D The HVM instances are very stable.=0D =0D >>>> I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter)=0D >>>> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large=0D >>>> and m2.xlarge instances.=0D >>>>=0D >>>> Any thoughts ?=0D >>=0D >> You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large an= d=0D >> m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax".=0D > =0D > By "paying the Windows tax" you mean that it run in HVM instead of PV Xen= mode ?=0D =0D Yes, the 64-bit instances (except cluster compute) are running HVM, which i= s=0D only available by having EC2 think that you're running Windows. So Amazon= =0D bills you for the cost of a Windows instance, including license fee.=0D =0D -- =0D Colin Percival=0D Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve=0D Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly para= noid
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