On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:

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Presumably these images sit somewhere directly on the Amazon EC2 (and are never brought home to ANL or anywhere else) so storing them and "moving them" is not an issue? Doesn't anyone using Amazon EC2 have to deal with the fact that the Linux image is big?

I was thinking more in terms of what amzon would charge for using such big images. [presumably charge rate would be higher]

I don't understand how it can be that big. 6GB is my entire system including KDE, GNOME, and ton of other huge extraneous packages. Non-debug libpetsc.so is less than 10MB. Anyway, I think this is the distribution model

The debug builds are huge. [perhaps they can be trimmed down a bit with -g insted of '-g3' ] Also we discussed defaulting to gcc-4.7+ - so I used fedora-18 which has that default. And all the default developer software adds up to the basic install. I attempted a minimal linux with xfce [one of the light weight desktops] If we distribute images we need a desktop - but with amazon - I guess that could be cut down [and cut down X?] - and bring down the disk requirement. Also amazon images might cut down on swap and other stuff that might take up space on a regular VM. [my cleaned up image of 5.4GB might be with swap zeroed/compressed out..] Satish

https://aws.amazon.com/amis