From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 20:32:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9943B106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:32:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-0602-freebsd-xen=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o2.shared.sendgrid.net (o2.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.235.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 509898FC0A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:32:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=nPKuJgw4GbVM6BVha40fvoOe+gc=; b=g+hsW9e1bdp5cCehe1U8BkCJweBa bEtKZf95rOo2NmhVMh9YKRqbzwtjtqH4aso9wy8S6PXDAcqrAbYn9Vi4L10Dy+cv 2V7EcXMY3qBvSQQMwGgCJAku5kFD+WHWEC0c2riYuuOJbLnEnU7RsEV13tXLYEGg ztjcWCq1UIVlN4U= Received: by 10.36.109.177 with SMTP id mf45.5028.4F04B76D1 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:32:45 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.9.180.5]) by mi12 (SG) with ESMTP id 4f04b76d.3190.2540a0f for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:32:45 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 4520 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2012 20:31:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 4 Jan 2012 20:31:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 62394 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2012 20:31:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2012 20:31:36 -0000 Message-ID: <4F04B728.3020708@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:31:36 -0800 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111112 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Biancalana References: <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Sendgrid-EID: RUbAm5H8PjswBj/QH+sYVehaJogg3iBnZcyVi1bw/IzCVgzBplzgY6kYa68/IueGJbtc6oXQd+ejSD8t0sTnOHRzxTt/YvjZK/gcWpDl0W4jlssiTyNh3gzmbsvi4ZAxi19eumbvDhC1cv9qJ/EVhg== Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:32:50 -0000 On 01/04/12 11:55, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:=0D > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival 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