From: | Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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To: | Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc> |
Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-rrreviewers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-rrreviewers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [9.4 CF] Free VMs for Reviewers & Testers |
Date: | 2013-07-09 07:46:11 |
Message-ID: | CAAZKuFbRfZYSAsNG8T+U2yVQ1zAeNZp+3oc1GY153z9UvYj+3A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc> wrote:
>
> The really, really big ones are useful even for pushing limits, such
> as cr1.8xlarge, with 32 CPUs and 244GiB memory. Current spot instance
> price (the heavily discounted "can die at any time" one) is $0.343/hr.
> Otherwise, it's 3.500/hr.
>
>
> Just to keep in mind cpus are similar throttled:
>
> One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz
> 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. This is also the equivalent to an
> early-2006 1.7 GHz Xeon processor referenced in our original documentation.
This is only a statement of measurement (notably, it also is a metric
that is SMP-processor-count-oblivious), for lack of a more sensible
metric (certainly not clock cycles nor bogomips) in common use.
> Who knows what that does to memory bandwidth / context switches etc.
Virtualization adds complexity, that is true, but so does a new
version of Linux or comparing across microprocessors, motherboards, or
operating systems. I don't see a good reason to be off-put in the
common cases, especially since I can't think of another way to produce
such large machines on a short-term obligation basis.
The advantages are probably diminished (except for testing
virtualization overhead on common platforms) for smaller machines that
can be located sans-virtualization more routinely.
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