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

"Missing operating system" after i386 dual boot install

2018-08-04 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
quot;: no change Any ideas? Output of "fdisk wd0", "disklabel wd0", and "installboot -nv wd0" reproduced below. Thanks, Sijmen J. Mulder --> fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 4998/255/63 [80293248 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55

Re: "Missing operating system" after i386 dual boot install

2018-08-05 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Success! > Did you read the FAQ on multi-booting where they talk about > creating the> openbsd.pbr file and using bcdedit? In running dual-boot with > Win7/OpenBSD on one system, and Win10/OpenBSD on another, and the > procedure in the FAQ has worked well for me. > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4

"acpi0: SSDT checksum error" on bsd.rd snapshot

2018-09-15 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi all, I downloaded https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/bsd.rd dated 14-Sep-2018 23:01 and verified its hash: SHA256 (/bsd.rd) = e362a4faff40decf0a1cc336a4cace03dadc4e8e43fa27492439ca9370a73625 When I boot it, the system reboots almost immediately. This is what dmesg has to say

Re: "acpi0: SSDT checksum error" on bsd.rd snapshot

2018-09-16 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:02:05 +0200 Omar Polo wrote: > I'm having a similar problem with the snapshot dated 15-Sep-2018. I've > verified the hash and with signify and it seems to be not corrupted, > but I'm unable to boot from it. I'm still seeing the issue with the Sep 15 snapshot also. Sijmen

/dev/efi driver

2018-09-17 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi all, I'm working on a small EFI boot entry mangement utiltiy[1] which works by querying and setting EFI variables (Boot, BootOrder, NextBoot). It appears that OpenBSD does not expose an EFI variable interface. Are there objections against such a driver on principle, e.g. security? If not,

No panic output in dmesg, and using sendbug?

2018-10-13 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Hi, My vintage Dell Inspiron 510m laptop experiences panics with recent snapshots and fails to boot the latest with a core dump. I've read the following: https://www.openbsd.org/report.html https://man.openbsd.org/crash But I can't figure out how to make this work. Questions:

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
> Op 7 feb. 2019 om 08:29 heeft Anne Wainwright het > volgende geschreven: > > I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: > > $ man -t ls | lpr -P hp_laserjet > > But find that the -t option is not present in bsd. > > Have really dug around but can find no hints, where should

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Op do feb 7 2019, om 14:33 schreef Ingo Schwarze: > But please, if you can, always provide complete, working, tested > command invocations to users, in this case: Apologies - I was on mobile which but that's no excuse.

Re: Is there a fix for stock vi's bug-for-bug compatible ESC-equals-return feature?

2019-02-20 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Op di feb 19 2019, om 21:33 schreef Ted Unangst: > I think the answer is, you want traditional vi, you get traditional vi. If you > want something else, try ports. Can't we improve vi? The proposed change isn't feature bloat. Even though it 's the classical behaviour it does feel like a bug to me