AWS T2.nano and idle freeBSD AMI, uses all of free tier?
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I'm somewhat confused about what Amazon Web Services free tier is for. Are people supposed to actually be able to do anything useful with the free tier?
About six months ago, I made a really simple test system using the "FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE-amd64-2017-11-16 (ami-07230d62)" AMI boot image on a free tier T2.nano virtual machine, with it doing effectively nothing except sshd.
I haven't done much with it, and it has sat in a mostly idle state, yet somehow it manages to use 100% of the CPU cycles of the free tier in a month.
It is mysterious what it is spending all its time doing with those CPU cycles. Is the default FreeBSD image just sloppy and wastes Amazon's free tier CPU time unnecessarily, or is this by design how the free tier is supposed to work?
Would it be possible to conserve EC2 CPU cycles by going through the image and disabling all background system daemons that are not essential to my needs?
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I'm somewhat confused about what Amazon Web Services free tier is for. Are people supposed to actually be able to do anything useful with the free tier?
About six months ago, I made a really simple test system using the "FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE-amd64-2017-11-16 (ami-07230d62)" AMI boot image on a free tier T2.nano virtual machine, with it doing effectively nothing except sshd.
I haven't done much with it, and it has sat in a mostly idle state, yet somehow it manages to use 100% of the CPU cycles of the free tier in a month.
It is mysterious what it is spending all its time doing with those CPU cycles. Is the default FreeBSD image just sloppy and wastes Amazon's free tier CPU time unnecessarily, or is this by design how the free tier is supposed to work?
Would it be possible to conserve EC2 CPU cycles by going through the image and disabling all background system daemons that are not essential to my needs?
freebsd amazon-ec2
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I'm somewhat confused about what Amazon Web Services free tier is for. Are people supposed to actually be able to do anything useful with the free tier?
About six months ago, I made a really simple test system using the "FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE-amd64-2017-11-16 (ami-07230d62)" AMI boot image on a free tier T2.nano virtual machine, with it doing effectively nothing except sshd.
I haven't done much with it, and it has sat in a mostly idle state, yet somehow it manages to use 100% of the CPU cycles of the free tier in a month.
It is mysterious what it is spending all its time doing with those CPU cycles. Is the default FreeBSD image just sloppy and wastes Amazon's free tier CPU time unnecessarily, or is this by design how the free tier is supposed to work?
Would it be possible to conserve EC2 CPU cycles by going through the image and disabling all background system daemons that are not essential to my needs?
freebsd amazon-ec2
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I'm somewhat confused about what Amazon Web Services free tier is for. Are people supposed to actually be able to do anything useful with the free tier?
About six months ago, I made a really simple test system using the "FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE-amd64-2017-11-16 (ami-07230d62)" AMI boot image on a free tier T2.nano virtual machine, with it doing effectively nothing except sshd.
I haven't done much with it, and it has sat in a mostly idle state, yet somehow it manages to use 100% of the CPU cycles of the free tier in a month.
It is mysterious what it is spending all its time doing with those CPU cycles. Is the default FreeBSD image just sloppy and wastes Amazon's free tier CPU time unnecessarily, or is this by design how the free tier is supposed to work?
Would it be possible to conserve EC2 CPU cycles by going through the image and disabling all background system daemons that are not essential to my needs?
freebsd amazon-ec2
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