Hi all, A little #launchpad-dev chatter reminded me of something I've been meaning to say for a while: amazon has introduced quite a few new instance types over the last few months but ec2 test still defaults to an 'extra large' instance (c1.xlarge). Looking at the specs on aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ suggests to me that a 'High-Memory Extra Large Instance' should be a straight win -- fewer cores, but more oomph per core, and a few cents an hour cheaper to boot. So if you happen to be running 'ec2 test' any time soon, could you try running 'ec2 test -i m2.xlarge' instead and see if it seems to be any faster?
I notice that you can't supply this argument to 'ec2 land' so I'll have a look at that next :-) Another thing that might speed up testing is to put things in a ramdisk -- I believe poolie is having a play with this as I type, maybe he can follow up... Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
