On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:01:29AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I've found EC2 to be unusably slow for Windows builds, with a medium
> instance taking an hour and a half to do a simple build and "vcregress
> check". They're also restrictive in disk space terms, so you land up
> needing to add a second EBS volume.
Yikes. The "build DEBUG" step takes 5-7 minutes for me; I use EBS-optimized
m1.xlarge spot instances in US East (lately about US$0.19/hr). Fairly sure I
once used a c1.medium, though, and it still took <10 minutes. I don't know
why your experience has been so different.