On 29 July 2014 07:44, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> > Anyone running OpenBSD on the PC Engines APU.1C ? >> >> Yes i have installed and tried to run a router on it for a 100Mbit >> home internet connection. >> I got high numbers of `sysctl kern.netlivelocks`, few thousands in 4-5 >> days uptime, and >> fragment counter in `pfctl -s all` was rising. I can't say if thats >> really bad because it was >> my first experience with OpenBSD as a gateway but i was told that >> should not happen. >> Also could be a problem with my pf.conf which i didn't investigate >> further. One port had >> random hangs on the WAN line, that was the main problem. > > Home internet connection? Unlikely, or it sounds like an early BIOS > with interrupt mapping issues. Alternatively you are waiting for > improvements in the MCLGETI stuff to as the MP locking situation > changes over time.
I used the newest BIOS available from the PC-Engines website. As i said i think its my incompetence for configuring it right. > It is an interesting machine, highly economical without the ARM > complexity. Hope it keeps improving, or that good hardware of the > same variety comes from other vendors. Love it or hate it, some > platforms are better supported. This is the new vax. If you hate it, > write code for the new platforms or shuttup. There is always some > sort of status quo... I didn't want to say something bad about the hardware/vendor. The hardware runs perfectly fine and with a preconfigured image like pfSense i had zero issues. >> Hardware wise everything is recognized in dmesg. The only complain >> people had was that it runs at around 60-70deg Celsius. > > They run hot, but seem stable. Laptops don't run at 30C like they did > 10 years ago -- thermal envelope expanded and pants became more > insulating because people wanted more speed. Noone knows which way > the future goes. Keeping in mind the passive cooling solution it's a respectable temperature and even in the warm summer days, as of now i had no problems with "too much" heat.
