On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Nathan Blackham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Eric Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: >> >>> I've set up instances to Windows 2008 R1 servers. >>> >>> I've connected, but then after a while of working, the thing just freezes. >>> So I reboot and then it takes forever to let me remote back in. >>> >>> So based on my experience I would say the service is: >>> a) unreliable >>> b) slow >>> c) unstable >>> >>> Has anybody else had issues? >> That just sounds like every Windows experience that I've ever had. Doesn't >> matter if it's EC2 or on a machine in my office. >> >> I've never used EC2 though. I do know a few people that use Linux on EC2 and >> I haven't heard of any problems from them. Do you have a *nix instance on >> EC2 that does the same thing? >> >> > > I work for Amazon on the OS team. My team focuses on the Linux side > of things but I have work a bit with the windows side of things. The > most common reason for someone seeing lockups after a period of time, > is that they are running too small an instance type. It usually > happens with t1.micros which are only 613 MB of RAM and people run > applications that constantly increase the memory they use or need more > that is available. > > I assume you are using the Amazon provided Windows AMIs rather than a > community one. What instance type are you running on and what are you > trying to do? > > Have you tried the 2008R2 AMIs? > > If you want to privately send me the instance ids, I can take a quick > look at them and see if there are any other problems that I can spot. > > Nathan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
that solved the problem. I started an instance that was windows 2008 R2. Everything works good now. Those windows 2008 R1 micro or small aren't worth anything. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
