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The "micro" instance on Amazon is essentially useless for most things. It'll do things like just suddenly pause for 30 seconds. It's a shared CPU or somesuch, s
by mibbitier 14y ago
The "micro" instance on Amazon is essentially useless for most things. It'll do things like just suddenly pause for 30 seconds. It's a shared CPU or somesuch, so you'll get periods where your instance is effectively dead.
- tomkarlo 14y agoThis has been my experience as well - you can't even run a tiny web service with a few users on it, anything more intense than serving static pages can result in the instance sometimes becoming unresponsive. It's fine for playing around with but not something you really want to use with anything serving users.
- mark_l_watson 14y agoI had to run a few small Clojure web apps for a customer on micro instances because only a few people would use them simultaneously, someone other than myself thought this was a good idea. I ended up running them using "nice" to keep the CPU use away from 100% and that solved the issue of being throttled. YMMV
- antman 14y agoIt throttles if your cpu is at 100% for a few seconds. Must cpulimit heavy processes. http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instance-cpu-steal/ http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan...