Network stack 'lock' / single-thread

2017-11-05 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hi, This is rather a tech@ question but i'm not high enough for that list. I see some articles about the fact the network stack in OpenBSD is locked or single threaded. IT may be the same thing, i don't really know. Can anyone share some light for this topic, at some beginner level? What is that

Re: Network stack 'lock' / single-thread

2017-11-05 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 05/11/17(Sun) 09:39, Mihai Popescu wrote: > [...] > This is rather a tech@ question but i'm not high enough for that list. > I see some articles about the fact the network stack in OpenBSD is > locked or single threaded. IT may be the same thing, i don't really > know. > > Can anyone share som

Re: Network stack 'lock' / single-thread

2017-11-05 Thread Karsten Horsmann
Hi Mihai, first I am not an openbsd guru. I am more an happy user like you. I read of some other BSDs (DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD) that they bring more smp support into pf. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html The nice FAQ told use that openbsd pf don't benefits much from smp. So I assume that'

Re: error: [drm:pid81687:intel_pipe_update_start]

2017-11-05 Thread Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD"
yes, i have. (but with a dell alienware 13). and, I need to use CTRL+C to break this loop message during boot, else i cant use my computer. My dmesg: OpenBSD 6.2 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Oct 12 19:53:18 CEST 2017 r...@syspatch-62-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem

Re: Network stack 'lock' / single-thread

2017-11-05 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 05/11/17(Sun) 09:32, Karsten Horsmann wrote: > [...] > The nice FAQ told use that openbsd pf don't benefits much from smp. That's wrong. > So I assume that's an more single thread processing for pf. It's multiple threads but they don't run in parallel. > I also guess that it is the "keep it

Re: Network stack 'lock' / single-thread

2017-11-05 Thread Karsten Horsmann
Hello Martin, ah that's cool too hear. Thanks for the clarification. Kind regards Karsten Horsmann Am 05.11.2017 10:18 vorm. schrieb "Martin Pieuchot" : On 05/11/17(Sun) 09:32, Karsten Horsmann wrote: > [...] > The nice FAQ told use that openbsd pf don't benefits much from smp. That's wrong.

Re: Bad network performance on apu2c4

2017-11-05 Thread Peter Faiman
Ah, I’m not using pppoe so perhaps that’s significant? I have a straight ethernet set up, em0 as uplink, em1 connected to a dumb switch, em2 connected to a dumb WiFi AP. I measured the speed using fast.com on my mobile, laptop, desktop, as well as downloading large files from different servers a

Re: Need to swap partitions: /tmp amd /usr

2017-11-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017-11-05, Jay Hart wrote: >> On 2017/11/02 20:26, Jay Hart wrote: >>> > On 2017-10-30, Jay Hart wrote: >>> >> Good Evening Fellow OpenBSDers, >>> >> >>> >> Below is currently how I have my disk laid out partition wise. I have a >>> >> feeling I need to >>> swap >>> >> /tmp and /usr in orde

PCH transcoder errors on 6.2-stable

2017-11-05 Thread Kapfhammer, Stefan
Hi misc, following errors are derrived from dmesg (full dmesg below): error: [drm:pid0:cpt_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A error: [drm:pid0:intel_pch_fifo_underrun_irq_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun Both with 6.2 MP and SP.

Re: NFS leading to D-state processes

2017-11-05 Thread Rupert Gallagher
More info... obsd mounted the nfs folder on /mnt/nas, there is an unknown problem on the io with the nas, and "ls /mnt/nas" locks the console instead of terminating with information on the problem. Before mounting /mnt/nas, obsd had a hot-swap disk mounted on /mnt/backup, alive and well. After

OpenSMTPd error "io-error: No SSL error"

2017-11-05 Thread Atanas Vladimirov
Hello misc, First, sorry that I'm reporting this issue so late, but I spotted it before a few days. It seems that my surveillance webcam stopped to notify me via email with the following messages in maillog: Nov 5 15:59:34 hodor smtpd[59494]: 2847e02c4337309e smtp event=connected a

Re: Need to swap partitions: /tmp amd /usr

2017-11-05 Thread Jay Hart
> On 2017-11-05, Jay Hart wrote: >>> On 2017/11/02 20:26, Jay Hart wrote: > On 2017-10-30, Jay Hart wrote: >> Good Evening Fellow OpenBSDers, >> >> Below is currently how I have my disk laid out partition wise. I have >> a feeling I need to swap >> /tmp and

Re: How help about to review FAQ?

2017-11-05 Thread Ken Withee
I noticed a broken link awhile back and some type on the website. The diff process was a bit new to me so I followed this article, it is a bit dated but it walks through the process: https://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/patching-obsd It was quickly fixed and I think with the diff process like previou

Re: ikectl errors

2017-11-05 Thread Patrick Wildt
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:25:18PM +, Andreas Thulin wrote: > Hi again, > > found this on cvsweb.openbsd.org: > > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/iked/ca.c?sortby=date > > ”In the subjectAltName comparison, the bzero before the while-loop was > lost while applying the diff

3g modem

2017-11-05 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
My isp leaves a lot to be desired. I'm into possible backup plans for when the connection is unbearable. Are there any 3g usb dongles or mini pci devices which work on openbsd? Thanks, Edgar

Re: 3g modem

2017-11-05 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:33:48PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > My isp leaves a lot to be desired. I'm into possible backup plans for > when the connection is unbearable. Are there any 3g usb dongles or > mini pci devices which work on openbsd? On my old ThinkPad T500: $ dmesg | grep cdce cdce

Re: 3g modem

2017-11-05 Thread Christoph R. Murauer
See for example https://man.openbsd.org/umb or, https://man.openbsd.org/umsm.4 > My isp leaves a lot to be desired. I'm into possible backup plans for > when > the connection is unbearable. Are there any 3g usb dongles or mini pci > devices which work on openbsd? > > Thanks, > > Edgar > >

Re: 3g modem

2017-11-05 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:58:47PM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:33:48PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > My isp leaves a lot to be desired. I'm into possible backup plans for > > when the connection is unbearable. Are there any 3g usb dongles or > > mini pci devices

Re: Apollo Lake kernel panic

2017-11-05 Thread Pedro Ramos
I cannot check it right now, but I am pretty sure I have disabled the C states and as well CSM. Also I have upgrade the firmware to the latest. At the beginning I also had some troubles. The system was crashing at different times. Now it is stable. I am running 6.2 -current not Release. Às 06:0

Re: 3g modem

2017-11-05 Thread Kapfhammer, Stefan
Hello, Ericsson (F)/H5321gw works great with the new umb(4) MBIM device with OpenBSD 6.2.  umb(4) was introduced with 6.1 and recognized this modem, but did not work correct. Up to OpenBSD 6.1 I used a combination out of  pppd(8) and chat(8), which worked great for me, for all the pre-6.2 releas

motion detection video surveillance

2017-11-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Hi Misc, Is anybody willing to share her/his experience in building motion detection video surveillance system using OpenBSD? I see at least one interesting port http://openports.se/multimedia/motion but I am really curious about the type of video hardware people are using. Thank you all. Pred

Re: Lenovo 110s Laptop - bug or unsupported hardware?

2017-11-05 Thread Martin Ziemer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:33:48PM -0500, J Vans wrote: > When running X, and doing things that require a lot of memory (open firefox > and watch a youtube video + 3 or 4 more tabs + open evince and open a > sizeable PDF was my test) this machine freezes, and the screen goes black. > Sometimes t