Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Артур Истомин
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:36:19AM -0500, trondd wrote: > On 2/10/15, Diana Eichert wrote: > > names to something more useful than "p3p2"!!!. > > > That's an easy one. I have "eno16780032". Awesome. It is somehow related to network interfaces layout on motherboard. This stupid default already 3

Re: postgresql-server exiting abnormally after upgrade to -snapshot

2015-02-11 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-11 19:54, Jan Stary wrote: > On Feb 11 14:49:17, h...@barrera.io wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I upgraded to -snapshot today, and did all the proper postgresql upgrade: > > pg_dump, moved the old db out the the way, re-init'd, started, and import. > > > > The thing is, upon receiving connection

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread andrew fabbro
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Janne Johansson wrote: > You can invent how many journals and whatevers you like to hope to prevent > the state from being inconsistent, but broken or breaking sectors will > sooner or later force you to run over all files and read/check them, and > in that case >

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/11/15 11:58, Jan Stary wrote: On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote: On 2015-02-10, yary wrote: I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume

Re: Audio probles like, slow response in applications that use audio and a little noise in the background

2015-02-11 Thread Henrique Lengler
First thanks for helping! On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:29:04AM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > the noise might be caused by a noisy microphone amp (even if > there's no microphone plugged). By mutting the microphoe, the noise > may disappear. Could you post the output of "mixerctl -a" ? Thanks, f

postgresql-server exiting abnormally after upgrade to -snapshot

2015-02-11 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Hi, I upgraded to -snapshot today, and did all the proper postgresql upgrade: pg_dump, moved the old db out the the way, re-init'd, started, and import. The thing is, upon receiving connections, postgres dies horribly. The log is just this following iterating over and over: WARNING: terminati

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread yary
Thanks all for the tuning flags & the example. I'll take a look at the man pages and file set. Doesn't look like the 4TB FFS2 will be a problem on this machine after all.

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote: > On 2015-02-10, yary wrote: > > > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck > > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read > > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful > > swap

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread trondd
On 2/10/15, Diana Eichert wrote: > names to something more useful than "p3p2"!!!. > That's an easy one. I have "eno16780032". Awesome. I try to stay away from as much of the Linux configuration as possible and administer the applications. My contribution is running "yum upgrade" every 3 days o

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread David Coppa
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > I don't know if you know this, but just put net.ifnames=0 in your > kernel's parameters and it will revert to the old way. As usual with linux, every new enhancement or modification is always accompanied by a knob to fully annihilate

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread Janne Johansson
2015-02-10 17:44 GMT+01:00 yary : > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful > swapping. Is there some filesystem-plus-options for rece

OT Linux rant Was: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Diana Eichert
Oh yeah, systemd. The new and improved init replacement. It sure looks less complex, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#mediaviewer/File:Systemd_components.svg Yeah, I know about net.ifnames=0, but that just gets you back to the ethX paradigm. So very "helpful" in a very generic way. What ab

Re: Legacy Laptop stops working with OpenBSD GENERIC >= 5.5

2015-02-11 Thread Miod Vallat
> >Both works with OpenBSD 5.4. > > Ok, I've remembered ACPI and given it a try to disable in UKC. > Now, the stuff works. :-) But now you're depriving us of the means to help you. Please send a 5.4 dmesg if you still have it, and 5.6 dmesgs with and without acpi disabled, as well as `acpidump'

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
On 10-02-2015 22:26, Diana Eichert wrote: > My day job entails a lot of Linux support, lately I've been > dealing with the big screwup associated with network interface > naming. WHY can't Linux follow BSD's straightforward NIC > naming? This answer is a simple one: systemd > It's positively bizar

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Bob Beck
Wave.. Thanks Diana. I still owe you a beer or thirteen. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Diana Eichert wrote: > I don't post much any more, my OpenBSD systems "just work". > > Just wanted to post a thank you to OpenBSD because it does > "just work". > > My day job entails a lot of Linux support

Re: Legacy Laptop stops working with OpenBSD GENERIC >= 5.5

2015-02-11 Thread Markus Kolb
Am 2015-02-11 12:25, schrieb Markus Kolb: Hello, what is your policy for legacy hardware? I'd like to reactivate an old laptop for special purpose with OpenBSD. But I've problems to run supported releases on it. The latest working version is OpenBSD 5.4. Since 5.5 you can read in dmesg (dmesg.b

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:35:32PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote: > > On 2015-02-10, yary wrote: > > > > > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck > > > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read > >

Legacy Laptop stops working with OpenBSD GENERIC >= 5.5

2015-02-11 Thread Markus Kolb
Hello, what is your policy for legacy hardware? I'd like to reactivate an old laptop for special purpose with OpenBSD. But I've problems to run supported releases on it. The latest working version is OpenBSD 5.4. Since 5.5 you can read in dmesg (dmesg.boot is attached): cbb0 at pci0 dev 4 functio

Re: Audio probles like, slow response in applications that use audio and a little noise in the background

2015-02-11 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 02:27:32AM -0200, Henrique Lengler wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new in OpenBSD (I'm loving it), I came from Linux. I installed the > last (5.6) version, and I started to use, without doing any change in >