Guys, Thanks for the input.
Regards Ronald On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Robert Hodges <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Jeremy and Ronald, > > Herewith more ideas about EC2 instances. Sorry if they repeat stuff you > already know. > > Jeremy¹s AMIs look good, assuming that Java stack means the Sun (oops > Oracle?) JDK rather than other implementations like the gcj. If you don¹t > distribute the JDK I would leave it off and let users pull their own > version > from the Sun site. For our own software we usually start by deleting the > non-Sun RPMs as they have library and option conflicts that cause many Java > programs to fail immediately on start-up. > > 32-bit images are really important for trying things out. We run all > basic, > non-performance-intensive services on 32-bit Osmall¹ instances as it is the > difference between $72 per month and $144 or more. > > It would be great to set up a drizzle account with /etc/init.d service > scripts for the user accounts. Password-based logins should be disabled. > > Finally, drizzle should use the /mnt file system which is local disk and > has > reasonable performance. The / file system seems to be a file-based device > and is very slow. At least that's the case with the Centos 5 AMIs I have > used. > > I can help test the AMIs as I spend a lot of time on EC2. Let me know when > you have something to look at. > > Thanks, Robert > > On 4/26/09 8:38 AM PDT, "Jeremy Zawodny" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As discussed briefly at the Developer Day, I think it makes sense to have > AMIs > > availalbe: > > > > - 64 bit developer w/toolchian and libraries > > - 32 bit developer w/toolchain and libraries > > - 64 bit user with LAMP/Java stack > > - 32 bit user with LAMP/Java stack > > > > CentOS and Ubuntu make sense. > > > > I'd have said not to bother with 32 bit, but Mark Atwood noted that the > > smallest 64bit EC2 instance is at least double the cost of 32 bit and we > > should try to keep barriers to entry low. > > > > My 2 cents... > > > > Jeremy > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ronald Bradford < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I'd like to propose at tomorrow's Drizzle Developer Day the creation of > >> custom AMI's for Drizzle that I am happy to develop and manage. > >> There are many possibilities and variances, however at this level of > >> development I'd propose initially a general purpose AMI that supports a > >> number of programming language implementations. I'd like feedback on > whether > >> this initially is acceptable or not. > >> > >> I'd propose to create both a 32bit (small) and 64bit AMI's to have as a > >> minimum: > >> * Ubuntu 8.10 32bit and 64bit > >> * Drizzle > >> * libdrizzle (obvious dependency) > >> * > >> * Drizzle PHP Extension > >> * DBD::Drizzle > >> * Drizzle JDBC > >> In addition we would then need then some application level software, or > would > >> people like to see this as a separate AMI? > >> * Apache httpd > >> * > >> * PHP > >> * > >> * Apache tomcat > >> Would people like the AMI to include developer tools so you could > checkout > >> source and compile, or not. > >> > >> This email is just as introductory information for discussion tomorrow. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Ronald Bradford > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> > > -- > Robert Hodges, CTO, Continuent, Inc. > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +1-510-501-3728 Skype: hodgesrm > > >
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