From nobody Fri Jun 03 00:14:37 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A12D1B5F7FE for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2022 00:15:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mail.oetec.com (mail.oetec.com [108.160.241.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.oetec.com", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4LDk112lSnz3LWq for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2022 00:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) X-Spam-Status: No X-oetec-MailScanner-From: dclarke@blastwave.org X-oetec-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.109, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, DKIM_SIGNED 0.10, DKIM_VALID -0.10, DKIM_VALID_AU -0.10, DKIM_VALID_EF -0.10, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE -0.01, URIBL_BLOCKED 0.00) X-oetec-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-oetec-MailScanner-ID: 2530EbKJ003974 X-oetec-MailScanner-Information: Please contact oetec for more information Received: from [10.14.0.12] (static-198-54-132-55.cust.tzulo.com [198.54.132.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.oetec.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-8+deb9u1) with ESMTPSA id 2530EbKJ003974 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:14:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=blastwave.org; s=default; t=1654215278; bh=kEbP6ZAsTrERrs10ZCWD1NyD+tYa5hsRGnhSRrS86o4=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:From; b=SE2hQwJH2sg2wFIY4KBLHq8sed/sEb1MAV6ShLTS5j/oCqvKmv35vVzoozv44uOKb qjcEW/zthGuPT/sDd3xZnhi2716/eqjTKeeReW87DDySFbgtqtpBL4tfwQwWXBwUBm so/VLxw22iMbtOMCMyom1GlZKbvF+OjHNfb8tyrx+OsJ+TS8PmLvig5jJKMI5M68fA IfpthDOstwgfh5gLIJkkg11C6wahwg4xAyEhXxWZ6z65KvhMC2kUinBM68CP5irWkx Mqz1a7191wgV2o6DMXDX1yffIMAUVYbSK7QrNU2aJoqnh4z2HAHzpK8GNQcujBYg1a 78lUw0PeEE5Ww== Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:14:37 -0400 List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.0 To: "freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org" Content-Language: en-US From: Dennis Clarke Subject: a small report from the Amazon AWS world Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4LDk112lSnz3LWq X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=blastwave.org header.s=default header.b=SE2hQwJH; dmarc=pass (policy=quarantine) header.from=blastwave.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dclarke@blastwave.org designates 108.160.241.186 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dclarke@blastwave.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.70 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[blastwave.org:s=default]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; RCVD_DKIM_ARC_DNSWL_MED(-0.50)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[blastwave.org:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[108.160.241.186:from]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[blastwave.org,quarantine]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.998]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_ALL(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:812, ipnet:108.160.240.0/20, country:CA]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 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