Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour

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?

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