On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 6:26 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 9/1/24 12:09, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >>> I'm planning on adding a new flavour of FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "Small" AMIs, >>> which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which are >>> optional or generally less likely to be useful for production systems: >>> [...] >> >> I’m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Which means >> smaller instances can be used. > > This should have no effect on memory usage aside from the fact that > getting rid of some of the large debug files will make freebsd-update > use less memory. These are all bits which are never loaded from disk > aside from that.
The goal is to improve freebsd-update? -- Dan Langille [email protected]
