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grand marlin Jun 18, 2025, 10:33 AM

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C6id mentioned here: #1361357333757689998 message

cosmic yarrow Jun 18, 2025, 2:17 PM

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@pure kelp or @twin chasm any recommendations from our usage over time?
Would you say a balanced instance type with NVMe SSDs?

This could be generalized to, how to pick a good VM for a Dagger Engine.
How profile/find bottlenecks/fix them.

twin chasm Jun 18, 2025, 2:38 PM

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Hey @grand marlin! The details of the message you point to continue to be true today, at least for us. We haven't ran extensive tests for the past few releases, but we don't have a reason to believe the result would be any different. There has been some optimization work, but that should apply equally to all instances.

grand marlin Jun 18, 2025, 2:59 PM

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Gone with c8gd.large, has the nvme storage and that seems to be the important part

grand marlin Jun 18, 2025, 3:43 PM

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Next question, any docs on a Dagger health check?

twin chasm Jun 18, 2025, 5:02 PM

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The engine image ships with the CLI. We recommend (as done by the helm chart: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/helm/dagger/templates/engine-daemonset.yaml#L113-L119) to use a command that queries the engine's API: dagger core version

twin chasm Jun 18, 2025, 5:03 PM

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grand marlin Gone with c8gd.large, has the nvme storage and that seems to be the important pa...

NVMe's are definitely important. CPUs do matter as well. ARM might be a great choice, but its not one that we've tested heavily so I'm not sure what the results will be. Let me know! 👍

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