Snapshot generation stalled?

Hello, installed snapshot on amd64 week or so ago to see how it is working. It's #195 from Aug 23. During the past few days I've checked from time to time with sysupgrade (with or without -s) but it always claimed I'm on the latest snapshot. I've also switched from hostserver.de to spline.de

Re: Intel Turbo Memory in Thinkpad W500

On 2/28/21 9:00 PM, Jan Stary wrote: This is 6.9-beta/amd64 on a Thinkpad W500 (dmesg below). Taking out the unneeded stuff (I usually take out bluetooth, replace the wifi with Intel 7260 HMW etc), I also noticed this (see attachments). Taking it out, the difference in dmesg shows: -"Intel T

Re: OpenBSD 6.8 - softraid issue: "uvm_fault(0xffffffff821f5490, 0x40, 0, 1) -> e"

Hi, compile kernel with debug enabled so you will get line number from the crash. See what's there. Go thorough git/cvs logs and see if anybody did anything with global mutex over sata/sr raid. Read the code. The possibility is you are hitting a bug which is there since raid5 was added to ob

Re: Large Filesystem

Nice experiment, but I hope you don't do that in production nor somewhere where data integrity is needed. Your SAS drives, what does their maker claim about "nonrecoverable read errors per bits read" for example? As an example let's look on 6TB seagate, 10^15 read bits per one nonrecoverable

Re: softraid(4) RAID1 tools or experimental patches for consistency checking

d/nvme for testing. Situation may be different with this especially once someone think what's tolerable and what's not anymore w.r.t. speed. On 1/12/20 9:58 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: Tried something like that in the past: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144217941801350&am

Re: softraid(4) RAID1 tools or experimental patches for consistency checking

Tried something like that in the past: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144217941801350&w=2 It worked kind of OK except the performance. The problem is that data layout makes read op. -> 2x read op. and write op. -> read op. + 2x write op. which is not the speed winner. Caching of checks

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

On 1/9/20 4:37 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: On 1/9/20 3:22 PM, Hamd wrote: FreeBSD: freebsd@test:~ # time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=test.tmp bs=4k count=5 && sync" 5+0 records in 5+0 records out 20480 bytes transferred in 0.239590 secs (854792500 bytes/sec) 0.0

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

On 1/9/20 3:22 PM, Hamd wrote: FreeBSD: freebsd@test:~ # time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=test.tmp bs=4k count=5 && sync" 5+0 records in 5+0 records out 20480 bytes transferred in 0.239590 secs (854792500 bytes/sec) 0.000u 0.195s 0:00.25 76.0% 22+198k 0+1568io 0pf+0w Result: *8

Re: File systems [was Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?]

On 1/8/20 12:44 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: As far as im aware there are 2 concerns about ZFS, 1) its license is not BSD /ISC you can use it and make money and not be sued, but it is more restrictive than BSD / ISC Yes, CDDL seems to be a no go based on past CDDL discussion which is available fo

Re: Odd /tmp behavior

On 1/7/20 7:38 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Using softdep on /tmp is a silly idea. > Why? To naive eyes it may look like a natural solution: e.g. before temp file is even created (on drive), it may be deleted which means there is no meta-data change hence speedup of operation on /tmp. In c

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

On 1/7/20 3:35 PM, Hamd wrote: It's 2020 and it's -still- sad to see OpenBSD -still- has the lowest/poorest (general/overall) performance ever: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=8-linux-bsd&num=1 Read comments to the article, I already done mine: https://www.phoronix.com/fo

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

It's 2020 and you are sending a link to article from 2018? Anyway, you (phoronix) compare '90 ffs technology with state of the art of current storage/fs in linuxes/bsd represented by XFS/Ext4 and ZFS filesystems and you compare with the winner right? Kind of unfair don't you think? And yes

Re: But there is Fossil...

Fossil is superfine and I'd like it for various reasons too, but unfortunately it does not scale to the OpenBSD repo size well. As a test, you can try and clone fossil repo of NetBSD and I'm sure you will find out quickly why people are working on GoT and OpenGIT. On 1/4/20 5:20 PM, go...@

Re: Deleting softraid Devices Fujitsu Sparc

On 2019-11-28 20:09, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: www# bioctl sd2 displays the raid but www# bioctl -d sd2 does not delete the raid. Not sure what exactly do you expect from "delete", but -d option for softraid is more like detach than delete. Although man page is a bit confusing since first -d is

Running Windows inside vmm/vmd VM.

Hello, not sure what's current status of vmm/vmd hence asking. Has anybody succeed with running Windows 10/Server 2019 inside the vmm/vmd VM? Thanks! Karel

Re: Home NAS

On 2019-11-15 14:34, Rafael Possamai wrote: My experience with ZFS (FreeNAS for the most part) is that it becomes more "expensive" to expand your pool after the fact (for a couple of different reasons, see below), That's probably case with more complex ZFS RAID setup, but for this particular u

Re: Home NAS

On 2019-11-14 15:26, Jan Betlach wrote: Hi guys, I am setting up a home NAS for five users. Total amount of data stored on NAS will not exceed 5 TB. Clients are Macs and OpenBSD machines, so that SSHFS works fine from both (no need for NFS or Samba). I am much more familiar and comfortable w

Re: Home NAS

On 2019-11-15 16:02, pierre1.bar...@orange.com wrote: Hello, I tried a home NAS with ZFS, then BTRFS. Those filesystems needs tons of RAM (~1 GB of RAM by TB of disk), preferably ECC. For NAS you prefer ECC anyway and 1 GB RAM consumption per 1 TB of drive is urban legend probably passed

Re: Softraid data recovery

On 2019-10-15 13:44, Steven Surdock wrote: Model Family: Western Digital Black Device Model: WDC WD4001FAEX-00MJRA0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000Old_age Always -

Re: Softraid data recovery

On 2019-10-15 04:26, Steven Surdock wrote: I believe the disks are mostly healthy. I seriously doubt that. What's the output from smartctl -a for both drives? I can't imagine why would you get failures on heave reads on one drive and then later failures on another one and yet it would not

Re: 6.5 PowerPC Packages

On 5/9/19 5:00 PM, Janne Johansson wrote: Den tors 9 maj 2019 kl 16:49 skrev Andrew Luke Nesbit < em...@andrewnesbit.org>: Unless https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html is out of date, it doesn't look like OpenBSD is currently supporting POWER8 or POWER9 plaftorms. I wonder what is the best way

Re: 6.5 PowerPC Packages

The best may be to see ppc@ mailing list over last year. Certainly there is some interest, but well judge yourself. Karel On 5/9/19 4:45 PM, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: On 09/05/2019 14:56, Allan Streib wrote: Unless https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html is out of date, it doesn't look like OpenBSD

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

On 5/7/19 8:41 AM, Clark Block wrote: Great desktop experience for OpenBSD is a user-friendly and easy-to-use variant of OpenBSD! Oh, and I've had a hope that you will be talking about OpenBSD scheduler, POSIX threading implementation and what to do with it to make it "great desktop experienc

Re: Answer 2 / Re: 10GBit network performance on OpenBSD 6.4

On 4/9/19 6:56 PM, Mark Schneider wrote: Hi Peter Thank you very much for your feedback. It looks like the performance issue is more complex than I have expected. Just for the test I have installed OpenBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 13.0 on few different servers and compared results (details are in at

Re: Xresources file for xenodm

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:23:06 +0200 Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to modify some colors for login screen of xenodm. I saved > the original file and started with a new one and of course nothing > works from it. > > Reading the manual, I cannot figure out some syntax.What is the >

Re: Reading suggestions for running graphical X based Linux applications on OpenBSD using a Virtual Machine?

On 3/17/19 5:46 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Z Ero wrote: | This should > be possible, correct? I understand that vmd does not | currently > support VGA output inside the VM but but I should be able to | run a > headless Linux instance in a VM image hosted

Re: Java program question

pkg_info -Q jdk Then pkg_add Then go to shell and do: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.8.0 export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin since now, you should have sane VM executable by "java" So java -jar May do the play... On 2/20/19 8:38 PM, Z Ero wrote: Hello, I am trying to run the stand alon

Re: Embedded FreeBSD on a five-core RISC-V processor using LLVM

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 05:59:36 +0530 Dinesh Thirumurthy wrote: > I believe a few will be interested in OpenBSD on RISC-V hardware. > > This is the first time, a BSD is booting on RISC-V hardware. > Looking forward to get OpenBSD on RISC-V hardware. I've seen on twitter a guy who booted NetBSD on R

Re: Raspberry Pi support in 6.4

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:38:42 +0630 Frank Beuth wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 04:21:50PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > >Why not an AMD Opteron A1100 based board? > > Because I haven't looked into it yet. > > This all started because I'm on vacation in a major electronics hub and saw a > Rasp

current snapshot breaks ports? (strange libc versioning)

Hello, in an attempt to update today from ftp.spline.de I've been kicked out after -current update with pkg_add -u complaining about wrong libc versions. Packages complains like: Can't install png-1.6.35 because of libraries |library c.92.8 not found | /usr/lib/libc.so.92.6 (system): minor is t

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:48:17 +0200 Patrick Wildt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 01:49:47PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:52:48 +0200 > > Patrick Wildt wrote: > > > > > On the MacchiatoBin we don't support the onboard ethernet y

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:52:48 +0200 Patrick Wildt wrote: > On the MacchiatoBin we don't support the onboard ethernet yet. On the > EspressoBin we do support the ethernet controller, but the connected > switch is a mess that I don't dare to support. Got other stuff to do. > Though I am working on

Re: How to search for "hostap" in man pages.

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 16:57:08 -0700 Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote: [...] > $ apropos any=Hostap [...] Thanks! This does the job indeed. Karel

How to search for "hostap" in man pages.

Hello, was looking for "hostap" or "Host AP" using man -k and apropos, but this somehow does not return expected results: $ man -k hostap hostapd(8) - Host Access Point daemon hostapd.conf(5) - configuration file for the Host Access Point daemon but: $ man ral|grep hostap

Re: OpenBSD on Lenovo m710q running minidlna?

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 12:10:06 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > We don't have inotify and minidlna doesn't have kqueue support for file > monitoring; I've been in impression that devel/libinotify is enough for "inotify" feature...

Re: Open source RISC-V 64bit w ECC RAM & PCIe this summer

On Fri, 18 May 2018 12:11:49 +0100 Peter Kay wrote: > >4-core (5-core?) 1.5Ghz, 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM, two >PCIe slots (one one-lane > >and one two-lane PCIe 2.0?), SATA, gigabit ethernet, >microSD, HDMI, > >UART > > Neat, but horribly slow and expensive. Raptor CS, on the other hand, are > releasin

Re: Open source RISC-V 64bit w ECC RAM & PCIe this summer

On Fri, 18 May 2018 02:30:13 -0400 Joseph Mayer wrote: > 4-core (5-core?) 1.5Ghz, 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM, two PCIe slots (one one-lane > and one two-lane PCIe 2.0?), SATA, gigabit ethernet, microSD, HDMI, > UART. > > https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/ > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/mi

Re: xmonad: losing keyboard after some time on 6.3 and -current.

rColor "green" "" . shorten 50 --, ppHiddenNoWindows = xmobarColor "grey" "" --} {- , -} borderWidth = 5 , normalBorderColor = "#cc" , focusedBorderColor = "#008b00" } and it looks like the issue

xmonad: losing keyboard after some time on 6.3 and -current.

Hi, I'm looking for other xmonad users experience on OpenBSD. What I see here is that xmonad somehow loses keyboard "connection" after some time. I can't no longer switch between windows, workspaces, screens. I can't no longer invoke new xterm, invoke dmenu etc. Basically it looks like crashed, b

10 GigE -T cards (Aquantia/Tehuti based cheaper models).

Hello, I'm curious if anybody here is working on support for cheaper 10 GigE-T Base cards. So far it looks like Tehuti 40xx chipset cards are cheaper than venerable Intel's X5xx and Aquantia AQ107 based are even cheaper. I'm asking since for example Aquantia starts to appear on some boards so ma

Re: 4-ports router under $150

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 08:52:52 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > The pc engines stuff will still have blobs in it. There's no way to have > fully open firmware on a modern i-series chip based rig. At the end of > the day, we all are still using proprietary hardware. APU2/3/4 is not i-series rig. It

Re: 4-ports router under $150

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:39:46 -0500 Patrick Dohman wrote: > As much as I’d rather not point the blame I found the APU platform buggy when > running OpenBSD. > Yes there are reports of stability with other O.S however subtle > hardware/firmware bugs appeared on several OpenBSD releases. > I’m actu

Re: 4-ports router under $150

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 20:28:14 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > On 04/07/18 19:01, jungle boogie wrote: > > Thus said Jordan Geoghegan on Sat, 7 Apr 2018 17:57:16 -0700 > >> The Edgerouter 6 is going to be coming out shortly, that is what I am > >> holding out for to run my home network on. > >>

Re: 4-ports router under $150

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 19:01:50 -0700 jungle boogie wrote: > Thus said Jordan Geoghegan on Sat, 7 Apr 2018 17:57:16 -0700 > > The Edgerouter 6 is going to be coming out shortly, that is what I am > > holding out for to run my home network on. > > > > > > Just curious, why this and not amd64 bit w

OpenBSD-based network switch with >16 GigE ports.

Hello, I'm looking to buy a new switch for house network. Ideally I'd like to setup everything here on OpenBSD, but I'm not lucky to find any OpenBSD-based switch. I need just GigE ports, at least 18-20. Preferably fanless. 1-2U shallow depth into small rack. I know all those Marvells, Broadco

Re: VMM VM - 'dummy' based driver-based X11 server inside, not possible?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:59:21 -0400 Tinker wrote: > On March 29, 2018 11:36 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: > > what do you hope to achieve here? > > Xvfb + X11vnc gives you a fixed-resolution graphical remote terminal. > > My hope is that dummy X + X11vnc will give the same but allow dynamic > resizing

Re: risc-v

On 01/15/18 09:39, Karel Gardas wrote: Have a look at SiFive.com -- they are probably closest to have some IP capable of running general purpose OS. You can try their Freedom SoC U500, but supported Virtex platform is quite costy... Or you can wait if their U54-MC CPU appear somehow in the

Re: risc-v

Have a look at SiFive.com -- they are probably closest to have some IP capable of running general purpose OS. You can try their Freedom SoC U500, but supported Virtex platform is quite costy... Or you can wait if their U54-MC CPU appear somehow in the market... On 01/15/18 09:25, flipchan w

Re: Community-driven OpenBSD tutorials wiki?

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:17:51 + Andreas Thulin wrote: > Hi all! > > Thought I'd create an OpenBSD wiki somewhere, where anyone (especially > non-developers like myself) could create and edit tutorials for stuff > non-developers like myself would find useful. I find that sometimes > existing t

Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD?

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Nicolas Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I recently watched a recording of Theo's talk on pledge at EuroBSDCon 2017, > in which the question of memory-safe languages and their practical usefulness > came up. Specifically, someone in the audience criticized the approach ta

Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD?

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote: > Just throwing my 2 cents in here: > I don't think it'd be appropriate in OpenBSD base, but i'd love to get > involved in writing a *nix environment in a "safe" language and at one If you are not opposed to switching your tooling, then have a

Re: Chip cheaper than chips

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Article on how to disable the management engine, if you have it and are > afraid of it. > > http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html?m=1 > And do you really trust that after this your CPU/platform is fully functional yet

Re: board ord boards with case for a router firewall

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017-11-02, Markus Rosjat wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> we use mostly soekris for ourt router/firewall solution with openBSD but >> since there seems to be not much of development and they are kinda >> expensive still... I was wondering if

Re: Sorry for the n00b question but I could use some education on relayd

listen on port -- that means listening on localhost or its NIC, in your case all three listen will use probably your router external LAN NIC IP address. So yes, you will need to use different port numbers -- if you are not going to use one/two/three as load balancing hosts for the same app. In th

Re: Chrome crashes with 6.2

I've also seen the problem like this, in fact it may be somewhat tricky sometimes to start chome at all. I've not reported since this is not desktop but server and chrome usage there is just exceptional case. If you are on desktop and you care about chrome health, it would be good if you obtain bac

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

Last I checked running with softdeps in virtualized env, I got some panices. It was few years (2 max) ago, but IIRC softdeps are not that heavily developed in time like other parts of the kernel. From what I remember from the analysis back than, slower the drive is, higher chance you get panic. So

Re: Problems with pf.conf I think, making a functioning router more reliable.

Include also dmesg and try to debug this issue more with systat(1) tool at least. >> Hi, >> I think something must be wrong in my pf.conf file but I can't see where. >> I am using openBSD as a router with a LAN and a DMZ zone behind it. >> What is wrong is not something sad and simple i think like

Re: DragonFly 5.0 released!

Sweet. Are you porting that to OpenBSD? On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:39 PM, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: > My inspiration for posting here is the following topic: > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/62876/ > > Em quinta-feira, 19 de outubro de 2017, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 < > soulofroo...@gmail.com> escreveu

Re: PostgREST post in OpenBSD

Looks like Haskell code. if you are familiar with Haskell app built using cabal just give it a try. Haskell itself, i.e. posgrest should not be issue here probably. What you may hit are various possible issues in GHC's runtime. But honestly, GHC runs very nicely on OpenBSD so well, good luck and gi

Re: Installer hangs - "already acking lease"

Seen the same but on Sep 9 snapshots and on amd64 platform. Another reboot to bsd.rd and everything was fine and I upgraded to latest snapshot successfully... On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Eivind Eide wrote: > Trying to upgrade this old machine with i386 snapshot bsd.rd from > 2017-09-11. bsd.

Re: octeon port, ubiquity edgerouter

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Rui Ribeiro wrote: > I am very satisfied with the results. Plus, I do not feel comfortable on > having a proprietary system+proprietary blobs facing the Internet, and will > irregular or no existent security updates. What platform do you use such that it does not

Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Never heard of VNC? but for this IIRC you need to know remote IP which OP told is "too complicated" for his family members.

Re: atascsi_passthru_done, timeout

It's not only on 6.1-current, but this is IMHO long standing issue. I've first seen it once got to OpenBSD world around 5.7/5.8 IIRC. On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > This is current/amd64 (dmesg below). > After installing smartmontools and running > /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -t

Re: Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > [...] Grow up, forget about that red button. If that would be that easy...

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

> Have you had the same problem, in that softraid wouldn't assemble the > RAID volume with a missing disk? How did you "remove" the failed device > from the RAID array (ie. you 'add' the new disk with -R during rebuild, > but how do you 'remove' the failed/offline drive with eg. bioctl)? No, in fa

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > Thanks Karel for pointing this out, you are in fact right, and nothing is > wrong with the logging, I just forgot that I'm decrypting that device > 'automatically' in rc.local. And the kernel log was from before this, hence > the similar de

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:23 PM, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > sd8 at scsibus4 targ 2 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed > sd8: 155872MB, 512 bytes/sector, 319227056 sectors Here is sd8 as crypto. > So the system disks (RAID1) are there, sd7l is decrypted as sd8 (so sd7l decrypted as sd8, well then > that's

Re: Interest in POWER platform?

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:05 PM, valerij zaporogeci wrote: > 2017-05-25 3:46 GMT+03:00, Chris Cappuccio : >> >> OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) >> as viable alternatives to i386/amd64. Other platforms are not well supported >> usually due to lack of avai

Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Jyri Hovila [iki.fi] wrote: >> You ask for peace but your whole post is highly explosive. > > No, it is not. > > I'm just expressing myself directly -- as us aspergers often do. > Then as a real asperger come with hard evidence supporting your claim that browsers

Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

For testing I would also recommend you to make sure both OSes provide browser with the same amount of RAM (i.e. unlimit your limits in /etc/login.conf) and I would also browse ports email list probably and search for patch limiting amount of RAM which is allocated for firefox javascript engine. I g

Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Jyri Hovila [iki.fi] wrote: > Now, can anyone provide a relatively clear description of what it is > that make the same browsers (Firefox, Seamonkey, Chrome) that work > fine in Linux, Windows and OS X so ridiculously slow when they are > being run on OpenBSD? > >

Re: Performance Clang

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Heiko wrote: > Hello Misc, > > I'm using current on amd64 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, > 3411.91 MHz) > > I noticed that with clang it needs 109 minutes for "make build" and > before with gcc 32 minutes. > > Is this a normal behavior? This is entirely

Re: softraid mirror & large drives (3T)

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Ian Watts wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, Karel, Allan, and Kamil. The motivation is > long-term data storage reliability. For example, my wife creates > graphical books, which involves large files, plus other work and > personal files. > so kind of SOHO NAS?

Re: softraid mirror & large drives (3T)

loose -> lose. Sorry not native English speaker here. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: > How much data can you loose on this mirror? The rebuild time is long > and the chance of another drive dying is higher during rebuild so I > would consider either increasing r

Re: softraid mirror & large drives (3T)

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Ian Watts wrote: > After 17 hours it is 24% complete, so it'll be about three > days to complete. The system is: How much data can you loose on this mirror? The rebuild time is long and the chance of another drive dying is higher during rebuild so I would conside

Re: AMD Ryzen

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > > > On April 1, 2017 8:02:07 AM EDT, Karel Gardas wrote: >>If you do have hardware available, why you just don't attempt to boot >>latest snapshot? Should take you just few minutes and then you can >>even

Re: AMD Ryzen

If you do have hardware available, why you just don't attempt to boot latest snapshot? Should take you just few minutes and then you can even report here together with dmesg output about your experience... On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Damian McGuckin wrote: > Has anybody achieved an installati

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Roderick wrote: > And where are the planned checksums written? First version divided partition to data and checksum areas which means RAID1 with checksums and RAID1 were compatible in a sense that if something terribly happen in checksumming code, then you still m

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:22 PM, wrote: > On 2017-03-07 15:34, Karel Gardas wrote: >> >> So if data correctness is your mantra, you don't need whole ZFS for it. > > > ZFS appeals to me for the snapshots / compression type stuff. Oh, I've mistaken you for OP. &

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:26 PM, wrote: > On 2017-03-07 14:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >> - ZFS *does* checksum, even on mirrors, and can pick which of a pair of >> mirrored drives is good and use it to correct the other one. > > > That i was not aware of, i only thought ZFS did that on RAIDZ p

Re: Funding for Skylake support

Guys, what about to look and/or contact http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/index.html and discuss matter with them? On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Peter Membrey wrote: > Hi, > > I'd also be willing to put funds up front so that good test hardware can be purchased to do the development on. In that

Re: SSL/TLS troubleshooting

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Christian Schulte wrote: > It's > > Operation timed out. Connections are very slow. Too slow so that they Not sure about the issue, but I've seen that last night too. Generally speaking there were too high number of lost packets w

Re: HP Proliant MicroServer G8: not seeing disks

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Most likely I'll give it more modern storage options (new or almost new, > not from the pile of reused ones) before I put it to its intended use, > and I suspect the newer units (SSD and low energy disks) will > run a bit cooler and mo

Re: HP Proliant MicroServer G8: not seeing disks

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> "Intel 6 Series RAID" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured > > More likely you need to change this from RAID to AHCI mode in the bios. > > The kernel doesn't know about vendor metadata written by bios/vendor > tools for softwar

Re: Flaw resides in BTB helps bypass ASLR

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: >> > >> > I recommend not letting attackers run code on your computer. >> >> Good idea, but then poor AWS/Xen/xVM/dockers/what ever container cloud >> provider users who do not buy whole

Re: Flaw resides in BTB helps bypass ASLR

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > > I recommend not letting attackers run code on your computer. Good idea, but then poor AWS/Xen/xVM/dockers/what ever container cloud provider users who do not buy whole box for themselves.

Re: Re ARM64 server hw availability and low-end Sparc64

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Mikael wrote: >> > Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their >> > new >> > Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too. >> >> I guess you talk about so called Sonoma/scale-out SPARCs, well those >> were already unveil

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Mikael wrote: > > Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their new > Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too. I guess you talk about so called Sonoma/scale-out SPARCs, well those were already unveiled and the prices

Re: How assign some logic to handle system-gone-totally-unresponsive events (if not else then to enable admin with differentiated failure tracking between userland and hardware failures)

Hello Anton, On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:25 PM, wrote: > Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:00:39 +0200 Karel Gardas >> 1) use machine with proper ECC support > > Hello Karel, > > Please explain this "proper ECC support" for every laptop user out there? > I am not sure my sys

Re: How assign some logic to handle system-gone-totally-unresponsive events (if not else then to enable admin with differentiated failure tracking between userland and hardware failures)

1) use machine with proper ECC support 2) man sendbug -- and following it report your OpenBSD kernel misbehavior On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Tinker wrote: > Sometimes a machine goes unresponsive. In this case, a non-ECC RAM machine. > > The reason could be that something in the hardware or k

Re: Dual booting - can't boot OpenBSD from Windows 10 bootloader

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Fred wrote: > > Or run it all on OpenBSD and run Windows and Linux in qemu from ports. > > Works for me ;~) How is it looking with performance difference of such combo host versus guest? OP would like to run Xilinx ISE which is CPU/RAM hog enough even on the faste

Re: ARM64:s finally on the market, and flooding it. OpenBSD support?

Tinker, do not touch el-cheapo undocumented SoCs/boards, IMHO this would be completely lost time. If you'd like to hack or buy hardware, better do with board/SoC which is/are fully documented. And no, datasheets are usually not good enough nor an advice to look into Linux sources...To make it comp

Re: Video card recommendation

Hello, I'm curious if anybody here does have experience with AMD FirePro 2270 (passively cooled/multi-monitor card) on recent OpenBSD. Thanks! Karel On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:35 AM, wrote: > Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:32:11 +0200 Jean Louis >> Hello, >> >> I have recently installed OpenBSD for the fir

Re: Check for wxneeded option?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: [...] > Almost immediately after 6.0 unlocked, 6.0-current moved back to new > harsher semantics. That gives the ports guys the right model for > pushing harder with labelling executables. Progress sometimes takes > a few cycles. Thanks for e

Re: OpenBSD 6.0 released, September 1, 2016

>> Our developers are: >> >>Aaron Bieber, Adam Wolk, Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, >>Alexandr Nedvedicky, Alexandr Shadchin, Alexandre Ratchov, >>Andrew Fresh, Anil Madhavapeddy, Anthony J. Bentley, >>Antoine Jacoutot, Benoit Lecocq, Bob Beck, Brandon Mercer, >>Brent Cook, Br

Re: php and W^X

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Thuban wrote: > Hello, > It seems that php-7.0 require wxallowed. > I don't like the idea to "wxallow" the whole /usr/local. > > Do you have any advice? Then create another fs for just wxneeded binaries. If you don't know, then there are 2 things which needs to be

Re: xpdf crashes when going fullscreen

Please also type `bt' and hit enter after run in gdb -- this will instruct gdb to print whole stack trace which may show how you get into the crash situation or at least help a little bit more. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > Dear misc@ readers, > > just noticed

Re: github

OpenBSD is using CVS solely, but for my own purposes I started to mirror src to github recently using cvs2gitdump tool. I do this since I find git log/git show more friendly than CVS provided tools... If you are interested see https://github.com/kgardas/openbsd-src -- CAVEAT! Do not trust the sourc

Re: tmpfs

Could you be so kind and move this conversation out of misc@ Thanks! Karel On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 7:54 PM, mxb wrote: > Who gives a sh*t?! > Ppl supporting OpenBSD community what matters - with userbase without users is > like masturbating. > > Ppl like me test public diffs on live equipment, d

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Miles Keaton wrote: >> So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then >> write my own little shell script to track the MD5 (find . -type f -exec md5 >> {} \;) whenever I make changes, that s

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