[15:18] <smoser> erichammond, around ?
[15:18] <smoser> i *think* i commented on http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ubuntu-maverick#comment-484 yesterday
[17:49] <smoser> erichammond, awake ?
[17:54] <smoser> please ping me when/if you see this.
[19:02] <erichammond> smoser: Got my 3 hours of sleep and am off to work.
[20:31] <zer0her0> how realistic is it to use the free year of ec2 for compiling things(such as chromium os & android)
[20:53] <nDuff> zer0her0, the mini machines they give away free are really, really tiny
[20:53] <nDuff> zer0her0, they're built for things that take basically no CPU, like load balancing
[20:54] <nDuff> zer0her0, ...or for just providing a test platform for your provisioning and management scripts...
[20:54] <nDuff> zer0her0, ...but I wouldn't suggest trying to use them as build machines.
[20:57] <zer0her0> nDuff: thanks, that's what i figured
[20:57] <zer0her0> just wanted to make sure
[20:57] <zer0her0> home pc that i was using for builds died
[20:57] <zer0her0> hehe was hoping to delay a rebuild for a year ;)
[21:07] <erichammond> smoser: I approved the comment, thanks.
[21:08] <erichammond> smoser: Followup from the UDS session... It looks like my EBS I/O request charges range from $1/month for a server doing very little to $20/month for a fairly active server.  I probably don't even represent the extremes.
[21:10] <smoser> wow
[21:10] <smoser> erichammond, thanks. i would not have thought that.
[21:23] <erichammond> smoser: Looks like I have 177 million EBS volume IOs so far this month on one account, primarily from a single instance.  By charging me, Amazon makes me think about reducing disk IO which would also have a positive performance impact on my application.  $20 just isn't enough for me to think about it yet, but there's probably some simple memory caching or move to incremental hourly processing that could eliminate the bulk.
[21:25] <smoser> thanks erichammond
[21:26] <erichammond> Is there an easy way to figure out which process(es) are performing the most IO?
[21:26] <erichammond> sar?
[21:32] <nDuff> erichammond, iotop
[21:33] <nDuff> ...well, if an instantaneous (as opposed to over-time) test is appropriate
[21:33] <erichammond> nDuff: I think I'm looking for IO over a period of like a day.  There are a lot of cron jobs that run periodically and I don't want to sit there watching it :)
[21:33] <erichammond> nDuff: ...but thanks.