Re: [HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-09 Thread Josh Berkus
On 07/08/2013 10:49 PM, Daniel Farina wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: >> I did some work on that a while ago, and found that I was able to get >> _astonishingly_ stable performance results out of EC2 EBS instances >> using provisioned IOPS volumes. Running them as "EBS

Re: [HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-09 Thread Daniel Farina
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Jesper Krogh wrote: > > The really, really big ones are useful even for pushing limits, such > as cr1.8xlarge, with 32 CPUs and 244GiB memory. Current spot instance > price (the heavily discounted "can die at any time" one) is $0.343/hr. > Otherwise, it's 3.500/hr

Re: [HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-09 Thread Jesper Krogh
> > The really, really big ones are useful even for pushing limits, such > as cr1.8xlarge, with 32 CPUs and 244GiB memory. Current spot instance > price (the heavily discounted "can die at any time" one) is $0.343/hr. > Otherwise, it's 3.500/hr. > Just to keep in mind cpus are similar throttled

Re: [HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-08 Thread Daniel Farina
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 07/09/2013 08:35 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Since these are cloud servers, they won't work well for performance >> testing. > > I did some work on that a while ago, and found that I was able to get > _astonishingly_ stable performance results

Re: [HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-08 Thread Craig Ringer
On 07/09/2013 08:35 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Since these are cloud servers, they won't work well for performance > testing. I did some work on that a while ago, and found that I was able to get _astonishingly_ stable performance results out of EC2 EBS instances using provisioned IOPS volumes. Run

[HACKERS] [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers

2013-07-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Reviewer, Testers: As part of an ongoing effort to encourage patch review for the PostgreSQL project, we will be funding cloud servers for patch reviewers and testers who need them for CommitFests. That is, if you want to help with reviewing or testing a patch for a CommitFest, and don't have you