Re: Can't update some packages in -current due to library version

2011-07-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I was just doing pkg_add -ui. Individual packages might be attempting to upgrade to a specific version though, eh? I was looking for Python 2.7, but I don't see it anywhere. I had previously symlinked /usr/local/bin/python to the 2.6 version. Is Python in base now? Python is not in base, bu

Re: hangs while compiling with dpb

2011-07-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>>> Since the past few days, I can't get anything to build with dpb. The >>> machine locks up in a hanged state with no response. I have to >>> forcibly power off. >> >> What was it building at the time? > > dpb was building www/amaya/browser and its related dependencies. When > I try to get to tha

Re: Bug Tracking system does not work

2011-07-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
may be proper link is http://www.openbsd.org/query-pr.html >>> >>> The bug tracker is down and will still that way for some time. >> >> Ted, >> >> Is there something that we can do to help? > > Write a bug tracker that doesn't suck. > > Suggestions about existing bug trackers that don't suck a

Re: Bug Tracking system does not work

2011-07-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Terrible? In what way? I use it in my work and I think it works great. >> >> What ticket software do you think is better? > > I don't have one. I think they all suck equally. Can you elaborate? Where they suck?

Re: OpenBSD 5.0-beta non-free firmware

2011-07-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> >> download from? >> > >> > http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ >> >> That's what I was wondering. Is this not considered distribution? >> (realizing I might be poking at a hornet's nest). distribution is distributing to everybody, but if only those who want firmware, download it, then its pr

Re: PHP 5.3 on 4.9 (stable)

2011-07-25 Thread Amit Kulkarni
mistakes happen. fix is to do make makesum? gentle reminder: ports questions should go to ports@, not misc@ On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Devin Ceartas wrote: > I'm getting this error, which I would have thought would have been cleaned > up in the stable ports but doesn't seem to be. Has anyon

Re: Package mirrors

2011-08-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Is there something going on with the package mirrors? They are empty :S > > Standard procedure during release preperation while -release packages > are being built for all architectures. It takes a long time on the > slower ones... > And it also happens sometimes during normal -current update c

Re: Recovery FFS formatted partition

2011-08-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Hi all. Its possible to recovery a FFS partition? During my last OpenBSD > installation I format by mistake my second hard disk with all my videos, > texts, pictures etc... Thank you for you attention. what was the exact command by which you formatted?

Re: two problems with the recent X @ i386

2011-08-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> On 2011-08-22 17.19, Jan Stary wrote: >> With today's snapshot, I can no longer kill X with crtl+alt+backspace. >> Has something changed? Is DontZap turned on by default now? I am not >> using any config file. > > Ah, I've experienced the same thing but in an amd64 environment. > > In my case it

Re: xpdf slow

2011-08-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> xpdf is always slow :P > > unrelated: have you tried zathura?, it's in ports, it seems a whole lot > faster > to me... or mupdf, my current favorite.

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

2011-08-25 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> yeah, you gotta wonder about that. >> No, really, you don't. >> Those that tell you it is about "Freedom" are mostly full of shit. >> It's about "it didn't cost me anything" to most of them. > > We've got an entire operating system which is

Re: Thanks a lot to all devs of OpenBSD

2011-08-28 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> (and main link which caused that >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2011-August/011412.html) > > This link makes me a little sad. I don't quite get why that guy mentions > that FreeBSD ports has problems, but then mentions only the netbsd work, > and blatantly ignores our tools,

new notebook dmesg AMD A8-3510MX

2011-08-29 Thread Amit Kulkarni
http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd;f_dmesg=;f_bsd=;f_nick=;f_descr=;dmesgid=2274#2274 I submitted this to dmesg@ and also at nycbug. Temperature is stable and uses vesa for now :( Machine works great otherwise...it really feels snappy in OpenBSD compared to Windoze. Just a FYI that this just work

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Vijay Sankar wrote: > On 2011-09-01, at 9:50 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: > >> So I was installing OpenBSD on my nice (for me) dual-core desktop and saw >> some things that need to be corrected... >> There's a misspelling here and I've noticed other errors. Is it o

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
AFAIK, you don't do diffs for advocacy. :-) On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I don't see diffs in this thread. > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:03:00PM +0200, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: >> @ Daniel Villarreal wrote (2011-09-01 17:21+0200): >> > Seeing and hearing that L

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

2011-09-05 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Features required: > TCP/IP Suite with IPv4 and IPv6 (yeah, I know, big security loss by > incorporating Internet access!) > GUI > Web-server (with HTTPS capabilities) > LDAP+-Kerberos server for User auth > CAS or similar for SSO > Radius or (preferably) Diameter support > Java support >

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

2011-09-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Dave U. Random wrote: >> > Wide architecture support (x86, x64, mainframes) >> >> AFAIK it doesn't run on current mainframes. Only IBM's various OS's >> run on mainframes, as IBM has a corner on that mainframe market. > > Not true. Several Linux distros run and are

Re: Firefox 6

2011-09-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Without having an endless crab session about Firefox, I'd like to > know if Firefox 6 seems any better for you. Firefox 4+ seems to > not just leak memory, but hemorrhage it. In 5 I routinely hit the > 2G data limit. FF6 is better in this regard it seems, but freezes > the system in fits of

Re: Firefox 6

2011-09-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Just like every single Firefox running on OpenBSD/amd64 > > On 2011 Sep 07 (Wed) at 23:37:18 +1000 (+1000), Alec Taylor wrote: > :Personally I'm using the Nightly builds (version 9). They're great > :because they're available in native 64-bit. > tell that to ariane@ *native 64 bit* cough cou

Re: Firefox 6

2011-09-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> :> Just like every single Firefox running on OpenBSD/amd64 > :> > :> On 2011 Sep 07 (Wed) at 23:37:18 +1000 (+1000), Alec Taylor wrote: > :> :Personally I'm using the Nightly builds (version 9). They're great > :> :because they're available in native 64-bit. > :> > : > :tell that to ariane@ *

Re: State of Intel HD GPU (HM55) - or how it will do on HP's Pavilion DM4

2011-09-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Good day, > > I am considering switch from Linux to OpenBSD, but I am a bit concerned > about my GPU... > > i own HP Pavilion DM4 1150ea... some technical details; > > Processor Intel Core i5-450M Processor 2.4 GHz, Level 3 cache 3 MB > Intel HM55 chipset > Display 35.5 cm (14") diagonal High-Def

Re: Are there any GPG checks in OpenBSD when installing an application?

2011-09-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Using ssh and read only ports is best but slow > > On a decent modern MP i386/amd64 you can build the full ports tree > in under 40 hours. > out of which half is spent on the monsters libreoffice, jdks, firefox, thunderbird etc. so if you can comment them out, your dpb build does finish in 36 h

Re: OpenBSD ACER aspire 9300 laptop install panic

2011-09-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM, roberth wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:47:38 +0200 (CEST) > marc.verwe...@telenet.be wrote: > >> When I boot 5.0-current (8 of sept) I don't get a panic screen. But >> the install halts and nothing happens. Last line I see is: >> entry point at 0x20012 >> and that

Re: GCC 4.2.4?

2011-09-15 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Hi All, > > After installing GCC 4.2.4, I still have version 4.2.1. I've learned a > little about pkg_add, so I went hunting for the README. > > $ find / -name gcc 2>/dev/null > /usr/local/lib/gcc > /usr/local/libexec/gcc > /usr/local/include/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc > /usr/bin/gcc > > $ f

Re: Apache problems

2011-09-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > *Something* seems to be breaking, causing Apache to 'think' it's out of >> > resources. >> >> Eg. for amd64 limit of ~4000 processes was resolved only before couple >> of months/weeks (not sure about correct time). A LOT of improvements >> from 4.3 times regarding performance and speed of syst

Re: Latest ThinkPad model fully compatible with OpenBSD out of the box?

2011-09-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM, James Hozier wrote: > What's the latest ThinkPad that OpenBSD can be installed on, and have > everything functional without having to tweak any special settings within > OpenBSD? > > http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd search for thinkpad.

Re: -current userland not building

2011-09-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> It seems I've [blindly] followed the instructions ... > > Hah. Whoops. yeah... what were you thinking! >> If indeed that is the case, the question is, how do I get gcc-4.x back ? > > It would be easier to reinstall, but you may be able to extract the comp set > and pray to santa it works. > o

Re: no packages for amd64 snapshot

2011-09-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:53 PM, LeviaComm Networks wrote: > On 21-Sep-11 02:23, Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> is this intentional, or there is some problem that prevents amd64 >> snapshot packags from being built? >> > I am seeing this too. What is going on? There are packages

Re: no packages for amd64 snapshot

2011-09-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> man dpb > > While I appreciate the dubious "humour" of these questions repeating > near *every friggin release*, I also award you this badge for your > reply: > http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776ff992970c-pi > > dpb is not in base, there are no packages, it's not mentio

microsoft and UEFI boot

2011-09-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html in the future how will we have access to OpenBSD if Microsoft get away with it? right now most of us buy Windows enabled PCs and either dual boot or wipe it out... thanks

Re: -current userland not building

2011-09-28 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> The site at http://openbsd.org is not in sync with http://www.openbsd.org/. yes they are different. its addressed already in the archives multiple times.

Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on a Dell Zune 400

2011-10-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> The biosboot (ie. boot sector) must be able to load the /boot file. > Then, the /boot file must be able to load the kernel. > > Both need to be BIOS-reachable. > > You don't want a giant root file system. It won't work. > > We actually have other reasons to have our users not use giant root > fi

Re: Question about apmd power savings

2011-10-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: > If going from 1.3GHz to 800MHz saves .5 watts, the power supply isn't > the most efficient, I'd say. You ought to see several watts, though less > than 10, at a wild guess. Of course, your kill-a-watt meter might be off, > too. I saw one th

Re: KDE 4 on OpenBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Is there some forecast (even rough like, say, 6mth, 2yrs, etc.) about future > availability? > Btw, since 4.6 kde abandoned hal, how does this fit with OpenBSD? > Thanks We can get it in the main tree when there are testers who are willing to devote their time and give feedback. On October 10t

Re: Building ramdisk (was "trees, 3rd time's a charm (ok+tests)" )

2011-10-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> After prodding from the "openbsd community needs to shake thinsg up" I attempted to compile a ramdisk with the patches from http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=131669525606850&w=2. The kernel and userland built fine with -current from a few days ago, and the patches. But I have had no luck finding

Re: man page sources?

2011-10-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Oh right. 5.1 is going to be the first release where all > machine-dependent manuals for all architectures will be > installed on all other architectures as well, such that > there is no longer any risk that you miss whole pages for, > say, the binutils of the GCC 2 era just because you happen >

Re: do not understand how to upgrade to-CURRENT

2011-10-23 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> -current for my laptop is TOTALLY BROKEN right now. >> I am building a modified version of -current right now. the only reason was for you was kettenis@ http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/pci/pci_machdep.c "I'm sick and tired of people doing misalgned reads and writes to

Re: I can use snapshots packages in a release?

2011-10-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
just ignore this guy. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Nigel Taylor wrote: > On 10/24/11 22:29, Zantgo wrote: >> What happens is that usually we talk about unified and synchronized to the >> manual, but I have not seen anything about the packages, then my question is, >> I can use packet-release

Re: USB mouse

2011-10-26 Thread Amit Kulkarni
tie one end of a string around your pet mouse, and the other end, tie it to your USB mouse. then watch your USB mouse run. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Zantgo wrote: > How I can run USB mouse? > > Zantgo

Re: Using TrinityDesktop to replace KDE3

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > Hello all. > > Someone of you could already know this, but me was just notified: > there exists Trinity Desktop - http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ - that > aims to keep KDE 3 platform alive. One of the goals they pursue is > co-existing with KDE

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Brett wrote: > Hi, > If no-one else is updating this page, I will do it. Can someone tell me > what date the OPENBSD_5_0 tag was added so I know when to start from? I > couldn't figure out if this was possible from cvs. My plan is to go > through the source changes

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > Hi, >> > If no-one else is updating this page, I will do it. Can someone tell me >> > what date the OPENBSD_5_0 tag was added so I know when to start from? I >> > couldn't figure out if this was possible from cvs. My plan is to go >> > through the source changes and plunder from the commit mes

Re: Updating plus.html

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> I would say, you follow the github.com/openbsd repo, and do a git log. > > Just a question: i'm personally tracking > git://anoncvs.estpak.ee/openbsd-{src,xenocara}, a link which was > introduced by Stuart Henderson in a message some months ago. > > Is that github.com repo (beside the fact that

Link failure c++: libgomp.spec: No such file or directory

2011-11-02 Thread Amit Kulkarni
while compiling for koffice, a component of KDE 4.7.2, I get this error c++: libgomp.spec: No such file or directory libgomp is the GCC implementation of OMP. it is triggering only when linked with -fopenmp grepping over /usr/src for libgomp, I believe some files related to OMP support were del

Re: Packages issues

2011-11-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Well, if you feel like untangling the dependency nightmare that comes with >> modern desktop systems, good luck ! > > Yes, the dependency chain for "modern" desktop is quite complex. > In our packages (at least for GNOME related stuffs) we are trying to find the good balance so that most expecte

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

2011-11-12 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Gregor Best wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:27:27PM -0500, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: >> [...] >> Questions: >> * Are other Thinkpad T60 users seeing similar problems? >> [...] > > I'm using an R61i and I sometimes see that too. On my machine, it > usually happe

Re: Recommended working IDE

2011-11-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
devel/geany? On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:51 PM, John Tate wrote: > Misc, > > I've had troubles with eclipse and anjuta. Eclipse does not want to > run, anjuta seems to be missing it's symbol browser in anjuta-extras. > Anjuta actually works, but when I open a project it gives me an error. > I've al

Re: Which version of Firefox most secure?

2011-11-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> 7.x.xx actual stable from Mozilla > > 7.x is no longer supported by Mozilla. 7.0.1 has 3 CVEs > If you don't have 8.0 on ports, go with 3.6.24 8.0 is in the process of being updated by nigel@, see his emails to ports@ in last two weeks or so. Tests and feedback is welcome from those running cur

Re: cd boot panic on 5.0 but not 4.9 or earlier

2011-11-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> how "safe" are those two images? would it be ok to run on a production >> system or should I wait for the official 5.0 stable branch? >> > The only time -current is NOT to be trusted is in the middle > of a Hackathon, where you can watch commits flying in. > Watch, but wait till its over before

Re: Giving java apps more memory

2011-11-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Is this information helpful... >> >> john@rothbard ~$ ulimit -a >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >> data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 >> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited >> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 1354329 >> max memory size (kbytes, -

Re: Minimally painful mail client for "rich" (spit!) messages

2011-02-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
http://openports.se/mail/sylpheed > Does such a beast exist, preferably among OpenBSD packages (as in, it > has to run on OpenBSD, but I can build locally if needs be)?

importing gdb 6.6 into base?

2011-02-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi, Directing this to misc, as I am not sure tech@ should be bothered. I was just poking around the system and noticed that gdb 6.3 is in base. Is there any reason other than GPL v3 license that a newer version hasn't been imported into base? I checked and saw that gdb 6.6 is the last one which a

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Know a person who brought a guru or sheeva plug, i forgot which one. He had power supply issues... On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:19 PM, roberth wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:04:33 +0100 > Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> Has anyone had experiences about installing OpenBSD on similar >> devices? With wh

Re: make build failed while patching to stable (4.8, i386, GENERIC)

2011-02-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Did you forget to do make clean? On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:57 PM, klerfe [Bodegas] wrote: > I was following 4.8 stable branch. After kernel compiled successfully make > build has failed with the following: > > cc: unrecognized option '-I/usr/src/lib/libc/include' > cc: unrecognized option '-DAPIW

OpenBSD -current fails to boot

2011-03-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi all, This is really strange. For 1-2 days now, I can't get the machine to boot. It is hung up since day before yesterday and can't get past fsck, saying system was not shutdown correctly, automatic checks in progress. The only sequence of events I can recall is that I applied the USB patch del

Re: OpenBSD -current fails to boot

2011-03-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
It is fixed by itself when I went in BIOS and didn't do anything. Just booted up normally. Sorry to be a bother. amit On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Hi all, > > This is really strange. For 1-2 days now, I can't get the machine to > boot. It is hu

Re: SSD disk alignment

2011-03-10 Thread Amit Kulkarni
I do believe that crossing this hard coded 8G limit without changing in other places would render your system unbootable. /bsd has to be between those limits on your / partition, read the FAQ, its mentioned there. The limit used to be lesser like 1G, I think. They increased it sometime in the late

Re: SSD disk alignment

2011-03-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Sorry for that Otto, If its not documented somewhere then unfortunately old things tends to stick. And also, the project takes a conservative view on BIOS (8G barrier), so I thought OpenBSD has this limitation. Undeadly is a good place to learn what limitations have been removed. I was just readin

Re: Choosing a window manager...

2011-03-15 Thread Amit Kulkarni
This is really funny. > I'd suggest kde, xfce, gnome, and then fluxbox, according to your preference.

Need help with logging fork() calls

2011-03-15 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Hi, When we build a project using ./configure && make && make install, inevitably there are invocations of all sorts of things. Is there a utility which can log which process was created, its invocation command, and then record it is destroyed? Basically, like http://www.suse.de/~krahmer/exec-noti

Re: Need help with logging fork() calls

2011-03-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Thank you everybody for the responses. I got systrace, ktrace and accton! I never heard of accton before. amit On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> When we build a project using ./configur

Re: Need help with logging fork() calls

2011-03-16 Thread Amit Kulkarni
needed to see. Thanks again On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> When we build a project using ./configure && make && make install, >> inevitably there are invocations of

build userland broken due to recent installboot commits?

2011-03-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
I did do a rm -rf /usr/obj/* /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/stand/installboot/installboot.c: In function 'findopenbsd': /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/stand/installboot/installboot.c:260: error: 'DOS_MAXEBR' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/stand/installboot/installboot.c:260: err

Re: installed java form ports

2011-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> You must read and accept Sun's JRL license located > at /usr/ports/devel/jdk/1.5/files/JavaResearchLicense.txt > To indicate your acceptance of the JRL add ACCEPT_JRL_LICENSE=Yes > to /etc/mk.conf and restart the build.

Re: full disk encryption & google chrome on OpenBSD!

2011-03-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Chrome has been updated to latest available due to hard work of Robert Nagy. Wait a few days until the new packages are created for public use and then upgrade to current (kernel, userland, xenocara & packages). Look here http://openports.se/www/chromium On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, jirib wr

Re: Create a custom RAMDISK

2011-03-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
google is your friend http://openbsd.wikia.com/wiki/Creating_a_custom_OpenBSD_RAM_disk On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Rodrigo Mosconi wrote: > Dears, > > I wonder how to create a custom ramdisk. My needs are a RAMDISK with the > network setup (hostname.if, for example) to setup servers over th

Re: kernel panic after install reboot

2011-03-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
What exactly is the message during kernel panic? Are you able to use keyboard to enter a few commands? If so you can check out http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#Bugs See if this can also help http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BootConfig On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Sha'ul wrote: > I wa

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-28 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Yes, you can increase it easily. Some systems which don't have IOMMU won't do it, so they have to be handled differently. I think that's why its not enabled in GENERIC. http://technoninja.blogspot.com/2010/08/amd64-bigmem-openbsd.html On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Tony Berth wrote: > Dear OBS

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
I have loaded the machine with processes and I think it consumed slightly more than 4G physical, running 3 compiles at once. OpenBSD userland (make -j4) + Clang/LLVM (make -j4) + ITK (make -j4). I was checking with top -s3 -1. OpenBSD just returns kernel page memory very very quickly, so it is dif

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> OpenBSD just returns kernel page memory very very quickly, so it is >> difficult for it to consume more :). But seriously, after this >> compile, kernel was holding onto some memory. At idle (after >> compilation) it was an excess of 300-500M more, instead of 1-1.3G, it >> was around 1.7G. Opens

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Nothing directly, just observing a comparison of default choice. OpenBSD opts for one strategy (bufcache = 10%) and Opensolaris opts for another (bufcache close to 100%). > * Amit Kulkarni [2011-03-30 23:19]: >> Might be okay for high physical memory machines but not low. I &g

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
where? please educate me. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Amit Kulkarni [2011-03-31 00:45]: >> Nothing directly, just observing a comparison of default choice. >> OpenBSD opts for one strategy (bufcache = 10%) and Opensolaris opts >> for another (

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Henning, Hey you guys are going to bump up the default and enable bigmem as default too? :) Is it scheduled for this hackathon? Daniel, Thanks, I will look into that. Undeadly is good. > OK, > > I may be way off track and totally wrong here, but isn't that worked Bob did > may be two hacketon

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-04-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Yes, they put that functionality in 4.9 and now they are using the functionality to make bigmem default for 5.0! They are also tuning bufcache, now I get it Henning! Start testing guys so the problems are spotted earlier. Did you see the flurry of commits in last 2-4 days. Thanks, you guys rock.

Re: new upper limit with BIGMEM

2011-04-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> So, now that BIGMEM is up, what is the new max? are we talking TB? >> or is 8GB the new upper limit? Seriously, http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=129114552517946&w=2 and then http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=129098908815042&w=2 48-64 cores usually don't come with 8GB. So 8GB is not the max.

Re: Upgrade i386 to amd64

2011-04-06 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Is this in the FAQ? Never thought I would read such a question. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 04/06/11 18:46, Steven R. Gerber wrote: >> I ran the upgrade from CD. > > from i386 to amd64? No. Don't do this. > > Boot off the CD again, and this time pick "install". > Yo

Re: Upgrade i386 to amd64

2011-04-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> On 2011-04-07 0:57:10 Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> >> Is this in the FAQ? Never thought I would read such a question. >> > > I will be sure to put it in the IFAQ for 5.0. Along with "where is > the sea-urchin flavored frozen yogurt?" and "do thes

Re: Upgrade i386 to amd64

2011-04-07 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> The only thing you should be trying to save are data containing > directories -- /home and maybe some other "special" directories, like my > /u1 example here. A possible exception to his might be /var; I could > see you may have websites or mail and didn't think far enough ahead to > put those i

Re: Testing new Thinkpad Edge

2011-04-08 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> > * At times the machine seems to wait a few seconds. > > > > For example quitting a man page viewed with less, doing an ls -l ~ > > sometimes takes seconds. Repeating it in another time gives a > > normal behavior. > > > > The first problem seems more strange. Maybe the RAM is simply too >

place xenocara compile output into /scratch

2011-04-08 Thread Amit Kulkarni
hi, how do i redirect a compile of xenocara to say /scratch? i can do that easily for userland using cd /usr/src/etc && env DESTDIR=/scratch make distrib-dirs i don't want to fiddle too much like changing X11BASE X11ETC just a simple way to do it. thanks

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread Amit Kulkarni
You should always pick up a current .iso snapshot and stick it in the device... Personally, I wouldn't buy a Celeron. I know there's tons of Celerons around with this enabled and that disabled but its performance is pitiful compared to a i3 or even a AMD Bobcat/APU. I would go for a AMD Bobcat des

Re: benchmarks

2011-04-18 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Chris, don't forget to mention that they are simplifying the buffer cache (and bigmem!) so that when the attempted switch to rthreads comes, there will be far less hassles compared to FreeBSD or NetBSD, which literally took 2-5 years to perfect. Read Matt Dillon's interview linked from wikipedi

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>-> Keeps me from taking that cushy Microsoft job Theo, Don't go over to the dark side. Stay aloof and kick everybody's ass. We need somebody to show that their marketing is mostly iAir. Now that you have given clear information about the updated status, I am sure many more would ante up.

Re: Building from the source -Current

2011-04-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Errr. are you sure your sources are updated? I don't see a freebsd_machdep.h in my /usr/src see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc Just su to root, the FAQ doesn't mention using sudo except for config kernels http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel notice the #prompt which is

Re: Building from the source -Current

2011-04-19 Thread Amit Kulkarni
r 2011 02:59:34 +0700, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > Errr. are you sure your sources are updated? I don't see a > > freebsd_machdep.h in my /usr/src > > Sources are cvs-ed. I tried remove freebsd_machdep.h from the source manually, > nothing changes. > > >

Re: Citrix ICAclient hangs whole PC with latest i386 PC

2011-04-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
You have to rm -rf the kernel directory I always do it. The # is always 0 in my case if I build it. rm -rf /usr/src/sys/arch/YOUR_ARCH/compile/GENERIC{.MP} On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Sorry, still same issue as yesterday even with latest sources so I > can't build

Re: Citrix ICAclient hangs whole PC with latest i386 PC

2011-04-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
That happens sometimes :) good luck. > PS: my src was messed somewhat so that's why I was not able to build > kernel properly

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Theo, Please don't take this offensively as it touches a sensitive area. Benny's proposal is good! License the CD's as 10, 50, 100 user license set, exactly like you do for the old CDs which are $500+. This way OpenBSD taps into the commercial market. Commercial users buy the commercial CDs. Las

Re: For me, OpenBSD is the operating system that "just works".

2011-04-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> So it turns out I had this spyware. None of the AVs detected it. > However, I did see a suspicious process running, looked it up, and > found out what it was online. I had to boot into Safe Mode to remove > it. Then there was another one. Keylogger, screenshot-taker... a nasty > piece of work. Ke

Re: Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

2011-04-29 Thread Amit Kulkarni
http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2011/04/27/7673.html Areca is well supported by OpenBSD (from man page), you might have to bring in some functionality from FreeBSD. I have no experience with modern cards, but I will be keeping Areca in mind for future. I have used old Dell Percs RAID control

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> OpenBSD uses a monolithic kernel -- all the parts to the kernel are in > the kernel file, which is loaded into RAM at boot. You may now safely > delete the kernel if you so desire once the system is booted, it isn't > used until the next boot. You may also REPLACE the kernel, it has NO > impact

Re: Graphics tablet use with OpenBSD?

2011-05-05 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> I'm using an old wacom cte-430, think the marketing name was graphire3. > It's only small but perfectly ok for my needs. If you have to make a > choice between small+good or large+cheaper, unless you absolutely > need the large size (e.g. tracing plans), compromise on size rather > than quality.

Re: OpenBSD on a SDHC or a microSDHC card - tips

2011-05-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sun, 8 May 2011, lancebaynes87 wrote: > I'm trying to get tips how to run OpenBSD on a SDHC or a MicroSDHC card. > > I'm not really interested in the install, I can do that. I'm searching for > solutions regarding the problems running it on an (micro?)SDHC card. > > http://unix.stackexchange

Re: altq cripples other connections as well

2011-05-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tom Murphy wrote: > I had set up ALTQ on a 4.9 firewall box as a box in our network needed > its sending throttled, but I noticed that while the firewall was > throttling this machine in question, ALL connections going through the > machine were adversely affected

Re: altq cripples other connections as well

2011-05-12 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> altq on em0 priq bandwidth 95Mb qlimit 8000 queue { bulk, std, mail, > ssh, web, vpn, dns, ack } My point in posting that particular misc@ post because it found that tbr is the problem. If you already fiddled with qlimit, it might be affecting tbr size.

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-14 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> Delete all packages, reinstall them. This happens when firefox and > gtk are built on separate days. The pkg system does a good job > tracking version numbers, but the contents of a pkg can depend in > subtle ways on what else is installed and that's not reflected in the > version number. Cont

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-17 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > gmail interface in xxxterm causes browser to crash. If I'm quick > enough and switch to basic (html) interface then it's running, but > sooner or later some page will bring browser down. > > in ff4(or any other ff available in packages) brow

Re: Better security? Haha

2011-05-20 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> Better tha >> iptables? >> http://www.esecurityplanet.com/news/article.php/3934151/Fedora-15-Boosts >> -Linux-Security.htm >> maybe... >> >> But apps opening pinholes? > > That's just asking for trouble! You fuddy duddy guys don't know anything. Did you check wikipedia, the authoritative sourc

Re: Theo's Birthday, have you done anything?

2011-05-21 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> > Remember hiking == code. > > That is not true at all. Hiking time is not coding time. With the > hikes I do, it is serious time away from code.. Yes, but it recharges batteries. So Marco is right in the way he intended. :-)

Re: Bad frame pointer crash again

2011-05-25 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> > There is no such thing as a "bad frame pointer crash". That's a > > diagnostic message from ddb that it can't find anything further up the > > stack trace, which is correct, since the function sched_sync is on top > > of the stack. > > > > Now, what the kernel tells you is that your kernel did

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