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

On 9/1/24 16:46, Dan Langille wrote:
> 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?

No, the goal is to avoid wasted disk space.  A t4g.nano instance costs
$3/month and gp3 EBS volumes cost $0.08/GB/month, so if you shave off
4 GB of disk usage and make your EBS volumes 4 GB smaller you've reduced
your instance cost by 10%.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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