Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Bodie
On 14.7.2018 01:20, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: Hi all, After migrating a VPS from FreeBSD to OpenBSD I noticed reduced networking performance. Both incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be 2-3 times slower on average. By testing 100MB file transfers I've mostly eliminated the following factors:

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello Sijmen, On 07/13/18 16:20, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: Hi all, After migrating a VPS from FreeBSD to OpenBSD I noticed reduced networking performance. Both incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be 2-3 times slower on average. By testing 100MB file transfers I've mostly eliminated the foll

Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu (Tom Smyth), 2018.07.14 (Sat) 00:20 (CEST): > Hi Stuart thanks it is for a client who wants to take faxes multiple > numbers in on a hardline ... and then convert to email and vice versa any > suggestions you have would be appreciated... not Stuart here ;-) but I did e

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Hello Sijmen, this is not something I remember seeing often on the list; to improve your chances of replies beyond "use iperf to test" (there's tcpbench(1) in base) you should at least provide a dmesg(8). Maybe even use sendbug(1) and have the report go to bugs@ [1]. Could you run -current [2

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Peter J. Philipp
I was extremely lucky 2 jobs ago to have an employer who requires only that I be able to SSH, and be able to work remotely across continents.  So I made OpenBSD my workstation.  The last job I had to use windows10 and I cried... and eventually quit, I can't work with that, and I wish I had my o

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I have managed to make a decent living for myself as a consultant who works primarily on OpenBSD. When I am hiring/evaluating applicants, having OpenBSD experience on their resume shows me that they don't fuck around and indicates that they are passionate about Unix and have a personal drive to

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Henry Bonath
Have you looked into IPerf? https://iperf.fr/ This is what I typically use for testing network throughput. Downloading a file is a bit more complex and involves things like the source server/latency/etc. as well as disk performance. (I know a 100MB file isnt much but still...) IPerf has a lot of

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread bit shifter
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: > Any ideas on the cause of this? Any additional tests or tweaks I could try? You could try running iperf to eliminate disk IO from the equation and narrow down the potential sources of the performance deficit you're seeing.

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Ax0n
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > As a hiring manager, I see OpenBSD experience on a resume as a sign that one likely has a firm grasp of UNIX. Several of my employers have used it for mission critical work such as appli

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Jay Hart
Do you have a car? Do you drive for a living? If not, then why have car??? J > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD? >

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Daniel Jakots
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? Best Operating System. > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? Learning OpenBSD will make you learn many many many things about Unix systems. > If

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Christopher Turkel
I use OpenBSD as my desktop though since I develop Motif at work it hasn't hurt my job skills. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:10 PM Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is no

Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Man Hobby
Hi, What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? If not, why? If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use OpenBSD?

Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi all, After migrating a VPS from FreeBSD to OpenBSD I noticed reduced networking performance. Both incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be 2-3 times slower on average. By testing 100MB file transfers I've mostly eliminated the following factors: - Protocol and ciphers (tested SCP, SFTP, F

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Re: ISDN Card /PRI Card support on OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Stuart thanks it is for a client who wants to take faxes multiple numbers in on a hardline ... and then convert to email and vice versa any suggestions you have would be appreciated... On Wed 11 Jul 2018, 22:34 Stuart Henderson, wrote: > On 2018-07-11, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > >

Re: nvi and unicode

2018-07-13 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Thuban writes: > Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8 > sings such as "é", "à" or so. One need to install nvi package to do so. > Is it planned to replace the vi binary in the future? > Is there any reason I can't think to keep this vi version? nvi2's main deficiency

Re: Wireless on ThinkPad T40 - Connects but no data

2018-07-13 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 07:32:50AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-07-13, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > > I get very poor signal on a ThinkPad X220. It works at max 3 meters away > > from the router. After that, almost 100% packet loss. The AP doesn't > > matter. However, it is not OpenB

Re: Wireless on ThinkPad T40 - Connects but no data

2018-07-13 Thread Richard Laysell
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:37:27 +0100 Richard Laysell wrote: The solution in the end was to use a spare USB wireless dongle that I had lying around. This was detected as a run(4) device. Everything now works perfectly Thanks to all who responded. Regards, Richard

Re: nvi and unicode

2018-07-13 Thread Thuban
Thanks for enligthenment. * Predrag Punosevac le [13-07-2018 10:06:19 -0400]: > On July 13 2018 Thuban wrote: > > > > Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8 > > sings such as "", "?? " or so. One need to install > > nvi package to do so. > > Is it planned to repla

Re: Kaby Lake software rendering on Intel NUC

2018-07-13 Thread Frank Groeneveld
After sending the email I noticed the first line in the Xorg log (machdep.aperture=1) and that also doesn't seem to fix the software rendering. Frank

Kaby Lake software rendering on Intel NUC

2018-07-13 Thread Frank Groeneveld
Dear all, I'm trying to get OpenBSD 6.3 with Gnome working on an Intel NUC based on Intel Kaby Lake. I found that the amd64 webpage at https://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html states there is support for Intel Kaby Lake. Does that mean it should not fallback to software rendering? Because on this mac

Re: Julia on OpenBSD?

2018-07-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On July 13 2018 Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > has anyone any experience with running Julia (language) > on OpenBSD? How difficult was it to set it up? (It isn't > in the Ports.) > > As somebody already pointed out bcallah@ was looking more into it but last time I looked (1-2 years ago) it wou

Re: nvi and unicode

2018-07-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On July 13 2018 Thuban wrote: > > Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8 > sings such as "", "?? " or so. One need to install > nvi package to do so. > Is it planned to replace the vi binary in the future? > Is there any reason I can't think to keep this vi version?

Re: disable fvwm screensaver?

2018-07-13 Thread Craig Skinner
Hi Jordan, On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:56:31 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > 'xset s off && xset -dpms' seemed to do the trick. I popped it into > my ~/.profile and am now off to the races! Try removing xidle's timeout from your ~/.xinitrc file or /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession Or in your ~/.Xresources file

ospfd feature request

2018-07-13 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
Thanks for the latest changes on ospfd/ospf6d especially for 'depend on' for v6 While you're there can you please also see if you can add the following change. I've tried to make a diff but failed. bgpd provides fib-priority to set the routing priority which is useful. Would you please add it als

nvi and unicode

2018-07-13 Thread Thuban
Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8 sings such as "é", "à" or so. One need to install nvi package to do so. Is it planned to replace the vi binary in the future? Is there any reason I can't think to keep this vi version? Regards. -- thuban

Re: Julia on OpenBSD?

2018-07-13 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 13 juli 2018 kl 10:46 skrev Rudolf Sykora : > Hello, > > has anyone any experience with running Julia (language) > on OpenBSD? How difficult was it to set it up? (It isn't > in the Ports.) > > http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=63134 the internet seems to point to bcallah@ -- May

Julia on OpenBSD?

2018-07-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, has anyone any experience with running Julia (language) on OpenBSD? How difficult was it to set it up? (It isn't in the Ports.) Thanks! Ruda

Re: Wireless on ThinkPad T40 - Connects but no data

2018-07-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-07-13, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > I get very poor signal on a ThinkPad X220. It works at max 3 meters away > from the router. After that, almost 100% packet loss. The AP doesn't > matter. However, it is not OpenBSD-related: > > https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X22