Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media

2019-03-17 Thread Leon Christopher Dietrich
Sound's like solid idea. A lot of systems out there lack propper ACPI description for VGA and it would definitly make the installation on such a system much more easy. As far as I can tell it doesn't seam to break other things and even low power system without VGA (like a pcengines apu2) don't se

Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-17 Thread Karl Denninger
I've long argued that the VM system's interaction with ZFS' arc cache and UMA has serious, even severe issues.  12.x appeared to have addressed some of them, and as such I've yet to roll forward any part of the patch series that is found here [ https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1875

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 17.03.2019 um 15:58 schrieb Karl Denninger : > > I've long argued that the VM system's interaction with ZFS' arc cache > and UMA has serious, even severe issues. 12.x appeared to have > addressed some of them, and as such I've yet to roll forward any part of > the patch series that is foun

Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media

2019-03-17 Thread Warner Losh
I generally like this idea... But two caveats... First, we'd need to update the docs so that folks doing serial installs can unset it Though serial installs are a weird beast Second, if it's really needed, we should have the installer generate it. alas, only vt can tell us that, but it sho

Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media

2019-03-17 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 10:10:45AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > I generally like this idea... But two caveats... > > First, we'd need to update the docs so that folks doing serial installs can > unset it Though serial installs are a weird beast > Second, if it's really needed, we should hav

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
17.03.2019 21:58, Karl Denninger wrote: > Huh? A simple *filesystem copy* managed to force a 16Gb system into > requiring page file backing store? > > I was able to complete the copy by temporarily adding the swap space > back on (where it would be when the move was complete) but that > requirem

Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media

2019-03-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
18.03.2019 0:34, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > Can anybody provide an example of machine where the flag is set but VGA > works ? For me, it is set on headless NUC when there is no monitor > attached, and then BIOS does not configure framebuffer at all. http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/vt-4-re