FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status

[Colin Percival]

On 01/04/12 11:55, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>>>  Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> I´d asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable
> enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ?

The HVM instances are very stable.

>>>>  I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter)
>>>> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large
>>>> and m2.xlarge instances.
>>>>
>>>>  Any thoughts ?
>>
>> You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large and
>> m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax".
> 
> By "paying the Windows tax" you mean that it run in HVM instead of PV Xen mode ?

Yes, the 64-bit instances (except cluster compute) are running HVM, which is
only available by having EC2 think that you're running Windows.  So Amazon
bills you for the cost of a Windows instance, including license fee.

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Colin Percival
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