[petsc-dev] seen on a competitors site

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> >   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

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>   https://aws.amazon.com/amis
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