Has anyone tried setting up p2pool on Amazons AWS free tier? I have been trying but cant get it to work right. I think the problem is that it doesnt have enough RAM but I cant find any specifics as to how much is required. Any thoughts?
yeah I have this also but not even going to try with such a small machine. Remember those machines are shared and have limits on files and memory outside of the raw mb limit.
Your other problem is that it will generate next to nothing. You will likely never even make .00001 ($0.006) BTC off of the free tier of AWS
He's just talking about setting up the node on AWS, not actually mining with it. On topic, I would try just adding a swap partition (AWS doesn't give you one by default.) It'll run slower but it may be good enough. I'm showing 660MB RAM usage on my Linux box with bitcoin-qt. I imagine bitcoind would use less. The micro instance only comes with 616MB RAM so you will see some swapping but I'd say give yourself 1 - 2 GB of swap and see how it runs. If it performs poorly you can always upgrade. The m1.small instance comes with 1.7GB RAM which should be enough depending on how lightweight your OS is.
