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
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
