FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status

[Guy Helmer]

On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:

> Hi lists,
> 
> What´s is the current state of FreeBSD running on Amazon EC2 ? Is
> this stable ? Looking at Colin's status page
> (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/) looks like there´s no
> active development on that.
> 
> Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?
> 
> 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 ?

I haven't stress-tested any EC2 systems recently, but when I did late last summer/fall, they worked fine for me. I had to do some tuning of the nmbclusters to handle the data rates I was using, but I think that would be expected even if running on bare metal.

Guy

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