I took the liberty of contacting Amazon and asked them if they were willing to provide us with such a medium Windows instance free of charge. I thought ... asking doesn't harm.
As a reply I got a mail yesterday evening, asking me to call them personally to discuss our needs ... I would like to do this. I was intending on asking for a medium Windows machine (or bigger) ... if however Windows is not a must, I could try to get from them what they are willing to give in Linux ;-) What do you think? I think having one or two CI Agents for nightly builds including all tests would be a good thing to have. Chris -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013 02:14 An: dev@flex.apache.org Betreff: Re: Mustella on Amazon EC2 I ran my dev box hosted on a medium instance.... Anything smaller and you are asking for trouble.. I don't remember if the small was of any value.. But pretty much, the larger the box, the faster the tests will run. -Nick On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, I give up. The micro instance has 600MB of RAM and 30GB of hard > disk. It has taken around 2.5 days since I started the mustella run > and it has not finished yet. It took more than 24 hours to just > compile the tests. And it has written over 17 million times to the > page file on the hard disk. That is where the costs are racking up > :-) > > I am going to see what it takes to upgrade to a Mini instance. > > Any recommendations on what I should expect on a mini instance? > > Thanks, > Om > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > >
