On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as>wrote:
> I use EC2 for quite a few things. Just a few thoughts... > > - I don't know if the micro instance (the free one) will be powerful > enough to do much mustella testing. It comes with a very limited amount of > RAM and CPU... If it does manage to run, I'm sure it will be painful. > Painful to? The machine? ;-) I am yet to get a single run of mustella to go through. We will know for sure how bad it is. > - The micro instance is free for the first year, assuming you only run > one instance at a time. Bandwidth and storage is not free, however. I > have a project half the size of Flex on a CI server on EC2, and I usually > get a bill of about $29/month, if you don't count the EC2 instance costs. > This will be billed to a somebody's credit card. > Yup, that would be my credit card. I am planning to run it for a couple of months straight and see what the costs are. If it is too much for me, I will pull the plug. Unless we figure out a way to get some volunteers to chip in. Thanks, Om > > -Nick > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:01 AM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de < > christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > > > Actually, when setting up the Flexmojos CI suite, I gave up trying to > > setup a Linux-Based instance. Getting the FlashPlayer to run on a > headless > > machine is surely a task to make you loose your head. > > > > The only option I saw in having FlashPlayer based unit test running, was > > the Windows machine. And for FM I even needed a medium sized instance, as > > the memory of the micro editions is way to low to allow serius test to > run > > on it. > > > > I know that Medium Windows machines are more expensive, but I currently > > donate the 60$-100$/Month to the Flexmojos Project. After all ... they > only > > cost, if I let the tests run and that's currently not very often. > > > > Chris > > > > ________________________________________ > > Von: Harbs [gavha...@gmail.com] > > Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2013 00:48 > > An: dev@flex.apache.org > > Betreff: Re: Mustella on Amazon EC2 > > > > Windows instances are more expensive, but yes, there's that option. > > > > On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:38 AM, Frédéric THOMAS wrote: > > > > > Just seen there are windows instances. > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- From: Frédéric THOMAS > > > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:30 AM > > > To: dev@flex.apache.org > > > Subject: Re: Mustella on Amazon EC2 > > > > > > Hi Om, > > > > > > I've seen it as well but didn't know what to do regarding how to setup > > the > > > Pixel Bender Toolkit and the Adobe Extension Manager CS5 dependancies, > > how > > > will you do ? > > > > > > -Fred > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- From: OmPrakash Muppirala > > > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:16 AM > > > To: dev@flex.apache.org > > > Subject: Mustella on Amazon EC2 > > > > > > Amazon EC2 has a 12 month free service which gives us 750 hours free > per > > > month. I have made an account on Amazon EC2 and have started > downloading > > > the Flex SDK on the virtual machine. My plans are as follows: > > > > > > 1. Get a full build of Flex SDK working on the develop branch > > > 2. Get checkin_tests run successfully > > > 3. Get the full Mustella test to run successfully > > > > > > If these go well, I will install Jenkins on that machine and start a > > daily > > > run of Mustella. 750 hours per month accounts to around 23 hours a > day. > > I > > > hope a single run of Mustella on that machine takes not more than 23 > > hours. > > > > > > > > > If it works well, those who are interested can replicate this setup > with > > > their personal Amazon accounts. After the first 12 months, I plan to > pay > > > for this myself(750 hours a month costs less than $10 a month) > > > > > > There are multiple ways this idea can fail, though. I will keep you > all > > > updated how this little experiment goes. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Om > > > > > >
