On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:08 PM Jan Klemkow wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 02:59:33PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > 2. Can you suggest a sane disk I/O benchmark, writing from RAM to disk
> > (i.e. cp /dev/null )?
>
> /dev/null will act as an empty file. you have
> https://openports.pl/path/benchmarks/fio
> To test perf on many small IO (measuring iops basically) run:
>
> fio --name=random-write --rw=write --bs=4k --numjobs=2 --size=1g
> --iodepth=16 --runtime=60 --time_based --end_fsync=1
fio-3.26
Starting 2 threads
Jobs: 2 (f=2): [F(2)][100.0%][w=6502KiB
> > Besides this, are my values too low or just the expected ones?
>
> It seems the throughput is bad. The small IO test showed good numbers
> for iops, but the second test (and I guess other people's suggestion
> to try dd from /dev/zero) will show that you seem to have a "thin
> wire" from the dr
Since this thread is moving slowly in another direction, let me
reiterate my situation again: I am running a browser (mostly chromium)
and the computer slows down on downloads. Since I've checked the
downloads rates, I observed they are slow than my maximum 500Mbps for
the line.
I can reach 320Mbps
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:46 AM Janne Johansson wrote:
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> Den sön 6 mars 2022 kl 16:41 skrev Mihai Popescu :
> >
> > Since this thread is moving slowly in another direction, let me
>
> True
>
> > reiterate my situation again: I am running a browser (mostly chr
Try arm@
There is more information
Hello
I am using OpenBSD current amd64, recent snapshots. I have a second
AMD architecture where I experience the following from time to time (I
don't know yet how to trigger this): the sound of whatever i play
(mostly web youtube) is heard both in headphones and computer internal
speaker. I can f
Hello,
I have some new behavior of cwm lately: if i start chromium with a
window at 0:0 and maximized, it increments the base position with +1,
so that the following positions are +1:+1, +2:+2, etc.
I was using cwm with chromium a lot and the windows was always fixed
at 0:0, no matter what.
Is thi
> Pure access points are just network bridges ...
Most AP I encountered were linux based with web servers for
configuration access.
Do you know if there is an AP model with minimal firmware to do that bridging?
If so, can you post some models, please?
Thank you.
Well, I am very surprised to see an email going into OpenBSD vs all on
the list, and even more surprised to see it's author it a good veteran
of OpenBSD.
But I guess things change with time ...
Yes, trying multiboot without backups is a real problem calling. Most
of the email is pure hype. Not a s
try a...@openbsd.org list
and do some reading first
Hello,
Since my computer is struggling with chromium and I suspect it's the
disk access being too slow, I want to map the directory accessed by
chromium ( i think it is ~/.cache) into the memory.
Looking in the man, i spotted rd, but i think i need to setup this in
the kernel.
The next choice is
> swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g 0 0
for some reason, xenodm is not displayed and i am not able to login ...
Thank you for your time. It took me some tests and thinking to figure
out i should try the ram disk/partition/directory/whatever. Just
curios, how many users are using this for chromium?
> Just as with a disk/network filesystem, you can mount it at whatever
> directory you like. So directly over /
> It lowers my confidence in Vultr as a reliable OpenBSD host.
Very well, it will match the confidence of running OpenBSD on a virtual machine.
Hello,
I use OpenBSD amd64 snapshots on the following dmesg hardware.
The download rate on a browser was slow and I figured out with some
memory mapped partition that disk transfer rate was slow.
I can bear this since I'm not into large file transfer business. But
here is another interesting fact:
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=test10g.dat bs=1m count=10240 conv=fsync
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes transferred in 260.289 secs (41251827 bytes/sec)
4m20.32s real 0m00.01s user 0m17.70s system
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=test10g.dat bs=1m count=10240 conv=fsync
10
Hello,
During my recent experimentation with ssd and OpenBSD, I came to a
point where the OpenBSD amd64 snapshot install was not able to boot
from ssd installed and booted in UEFI mode.
Since I was able to prior use this ssd in this configuration, I
started to analyze and check more in BIOS and ss
Hello,
I tried to enable gnome or kde after install in an openbsd snapshot for amd64.
Last time (some time ago) I know for sure there were some pkg-readmes
for both gnome and kde start. I can't find them now, I have some
readmes in the directory, but not for gnome nor kde.
Is there some other way
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 9:05 PM Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
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> On Sun, 2022-05-01 at 20:51 +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried to enable gnome or kde after install in an openbsd snapshot for
> > amd64.
> > Last time (some time ago) I know
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 11:17 PM Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 11:06:15PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 9:05 PM Antoine Jacoutot
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2022-05-01 at 20:51 +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
>
OpenBSD detected 3 sound cards for you. From what I recall, the one on
the HDMI video output (associated to your video card) is not
supported, so no sound there.
Maybe the sound goes to your envy0, ESI Julia sound card. Could you
check with some phones or speakers?
As for the Realtek one, it looks
> It doesn't work under Win7, I just check...
Fried soundcard?
And you have a lot of disks too, amazing ...
Hello,
I want to map /tmp as a mfs type. I did this in my /etc/fstab:
0a4b310a4a014e04.b none swap sw
0a4b310a4a014e04.a / ffs rw 1 1
0a4b310a4a014e04.l /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g 0 0
0a4b310a4a014e04.f /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
0a4b310a4a014e04.g /usr/X11R6 ffs
On Wed, May 4, 2022, 20:55 Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> what did you do exactly? Did you remount / ?
>
I started with a fresh install of snapshots for amd64.
Original /etc/fstab:
0a4b310a4a014e04.b none swap sw
0a4b310a4a014e04.a / ffs rw 1 1
0a4b310a4a014e04.l /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
0a4b310
> what did you do exactly? Did you remount / ?
I have to use # mount -uw /
Without / it is against my initial purpose.
Solved.
> ... just a rant ...
This is not the list you are looking for. Move along, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmhHyyzh9o
This short movie explains everything for the users:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmhHyyzh9o
Hello,
I want to export XDG_CACHE_HOME variable used by Xorg.
What is the best place (file or ?) to export this variable?
I remember i used some file to export a long time ago PS1 variable.
Should I use ~/.login file or is it a better way to export this xorg variable?
OpenBSD amd64 here, snapsho
The idea of changing the OS implementation in order to suit an
internet browser is hilarious at least. The browsers developers are
not interested in proper implementation and inbreed of browser with OS
internals, no! All that matters is to make something work for the
browser itself.
I am not able
[ ... ]
Just my user feedback, and only if it is wanted: I was not able to
understand a damn thing from all the messages about this change.
As an user, the "update" thing was always a voodoo for me. Ironically,
the FAQ has exactly 3 (three) lines of text, one is the command itself
(no offense int
> ... mg will use a tab for indentation.
Use something to replace every TAB occurrence in the source code with
8 spaces sequence. Well, not every TAB maybe?
> could be thermals.
Or it could be some kind of cache total miss. I find it strange to
overheat a storage after 4GB of transfers. Just saying.
Thank you.
> Indeed, the disk is hot;
Out of curiosity, what happens if you run that dd again when the disk is hot?
Is the transfer running at that high speed? Is it stuck to the throttled speed?
Thanks
For the late comers to the party, see [1].
[1] https://www.hertzbleed.com/
> My problem is it does not boot with this mSATA disk in.
Can you try this after a dd if=/dev/zero for the first part of the
disk (i.e. 100Mb) ?
> ... how to rectify it is beyond my capabilities as a new OpenBSD user.
First of all, there is nothing to rectify. All was done to act like
this and to serve a specific purpose. Much work and developers'
efforts were poured into this, again with a specific great purpose (
hint: security related).
> [...] I have not had time to upgrade any of my APU systems to anything newer
> than 6.8, so I
> cannot personally attest that mSATA definitely works in 6.9+
This is one reason that incompatibilities sleeps thru: people run old
versions of software, the new ones don't reach the specific hardware
> With your email now however the original question remains: Does OpenBSD
> actually support hardware accelerated video decoding today?
General answer: NO.
A more detailed answer is like this: there is a talk on the list about
libvaapi (if i recall correctly) implementation for intel only. It wa
> A quick note that the slightly older M625q (with an AMD processor) isn't
> quite so good with OpenBSD.
What exactly is "good" with OpenBSD?
> It runs overly slow and I have yet had time to figure out why.
So again, what is "slow"?
> Interestingly, even on apm -H it takes longer to compile a
> ... reading posts from people using these on other OS (which aren't very
> positive) I > wouldn't think this is worth the trouble.
Somebody I know has a mainboard with Realtek chipset with 2.5Gb rate
and runs Windows 11. On Auto mode, the card "jumps" and locks on 100Mb
mode in a 1Gb network. T
> I havn't got no mails in the last two days.
> Can you tell me something about the issue?
I was very unfortunate in the last 10 years.
Can you fix this? Or help me to debug.
tx
> In this day and age, I find it more frustrating [...]
Me too. But with the people trying to be real experts in what they are
clearly not.
> So my current speculation is that OpenBSD has a problem booting _from_USB_ on
> this laptop.
I think it should be like this:
"So my current speculation is that LAPTOP has a problem booting
_from_USB_ on this OpneBSD."
As a note, every time i see "speculation" word my mind associates it
with th
> [...] such a evil that it affects humanity [...]
Just one question, please: who put you in charge to defend humanity?
I don;t care about the answer, but go defend the humanity out of the misc@.
Please.
Hello,
Nothing wrong to report, but after installing latest amd64 snapshot i
was happy to see that there is a speed increase in all application
GUIs. Maybe the background run got some speed to, i didn't checked
yet.
Chromium is brilliantly fast, no delays in opening, minimal delays in
rendering p
> I suspect there's an issue with the crystal ball daemon.
So the crystal was cracked.
It is really fabulous. I never think of that speed gain.
What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked?
Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is
done, they call unlock?
What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run?
I am n
On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM Janne Johansson wrote:
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> > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked?
> > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is
> > done, they call unlock?
> > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures
See the inserted comments, please.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 3:54 PM Janne Johansson wrote:
>
> > > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked?
> > > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is
> > > > done, they call unlock?
> > > > What is ker
> Can be we get a port of flashprog [1], please?
flashrom
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 03:01:22PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > If your intention is/was to help a new OpenBSD user to install
> > packages, then my feedback is a simple no. This article is far from
> &g
Hello,
If your intention is/was to help a new OpenBSD user to install
packages, then my feedback is a simple no. This article is far from
helping a beginner to easily install packages.
Hello,
I run 5.1-beta from a snapshot ( #141) and I got a kernel panic on a
computer that was running ok the other versions of OpenBSD, the last
good one being 4.9 from a snapshot at that time. I skipped 5.0 and I
grabbed 5.1 snapshot to install. This is the second that gives me the
kernel panic,
I did some mistakes in the previous email, I used "kernel panic"
reference, which is not what happened. The blue screen got me too
quick.
Thanks.
I will add here some update: I did new installs using 4.9-release and
5.0-release and they are working fine, the kernel is not stopped
neither on install or boot.
I omitted to say that on 5.1-beta the install kernel ( bsd.rd right ?)
is booting fine, the problem is on normal boot that I receive the
Could you post the section from dmesg for this device, after the patch, please ?
Thank you.
Hello,
I've run in some "able to repeat issue" using X.org doing some
software try. The result is a complete X.org server shut down. I'm not
good in reporting things, but this is very interesting because it
repeats every time. See the details down there, I'm curious if someone
can reproduce it. If
I've run xxxterm from xterm on openbox this time, under some load
stress pages (many big pictures slideshow style, waiting with patience
for the pages to load).
There it pops an error after each set of aprox. 100 pages:
$ xxxterm
xxxterm: config_parse: cannot open /home/uhmewrk/.xxxterm.conf: No
s
How did you install the firmware?
I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up
the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and
OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some firmware
files.
I don't remember what exactly I did wrong, the files
>Whoops. Spoke too soon. Failing again.
>
>nwid ***
>wpakey
>inet 192.168.0.235 255.255.255.0 NONE
>Yet commenting the last line and adding dhcp works fine.
>--
>Ed Ahlsen-Girard
>Ft. Walton Beach FL
Check your wireless side of the router or the access point and note
the ran
Iy was not ok for me to run blender on OpenBSD, mainly because
interface errors like freezes, bad render of interface and eventually
.core files.
I found this on internet, long time ago, and it was ok since then. Run
blender like this in terminal (you can do more research, i think it
disables the h
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:39:32AM +0400, Alexander Polakov wrote:
>
> I also noticed that with default (no) sndiod flags azalia0 interrupts
> go high (200) while it's 50 when I use flags above.
>
200 is the expected value. But stuttering isn't expected :/
I was using mplayer run from terminal, a
> OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #5: Tue Feb 7 08:26:54 EST 2012
>r...@nero.witworx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
Is it a custom built kernel ?
Hi,
I need to test a commercial router for throughtput and I decided to
put it between 2 OpenBSD systems running network benchmark software.
Looking on openports.se I found iperf, netperf and ttcp. Could you
suggest one from them, based on your experience, please ?
Thanks.
Did you try to connect to that Soekris using your laptop? Maybe there
is nothing wrong with the dongle ...
A dmesg snip with that dongle detection would be interesting, too.
.
> Increase the limits in login.conf for the relevant login class;
> you'll need to logout and back in for them to take effect.
> You've hit both datasize and openfiles limits.
How much to increase them ? The login.conf is the one put by the
install. This error will fire even with one tab open in x
Here I see another thing with USB connection. The machine is a Thinkpad
T43 laptop, only 2 stacked USB ports. I connected a Genius USB mouse
and left it connected. The OS boots correctly and sometimes, right
after the login: prompt I can see the disconnect message for the mouse
without phisically d
Hello,
I was starting a download of ports from
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/openbsd/snapshots/ports.tar.gz to compare
it with an old archive from a mirror. As you can see, the file size is
listed as 20.7M, but what I got is a 220M file which is corrupted as
reported by tar. The fact is that artfil
> Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote:
> I want to tell you about my experience with OpenBSD.
It seems that you need to get some experience and then talk about it.
You have none yet in the area you promote, so why should I be
interested about nothing ?
> [ put here the "experience" ]
To talk about
David Vasek wrote:
>Except that the equipment shoudn't direct people to behave in such a
>disasterous way. And this the case.
This is not the case, don't be ridiculous. There is not a disaster if
you wipe out your hardisk by mistake.
I think you got it wrong here. The developer can put anything h
Hello,
What is the proper way to report glitches or errors from applications
present in ports only ( not in base) ?
Is it ok to discuss those on ports@ ? I want to avoid doing this on
misc@ from now on.
Thank you.
hi,
some insights for people using GPS for very critical server time keeping
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15817272,00.html
Hello,
You should try with the most recent snapshot.
Your machine's dmesg looks interesting, could you give some details
about it and maybe the name of the supplier.
Thanks
Hi,
"Oh my god ..." does not work for me since I don't belive in that kind
of "god". It's not a balony, just some information. Did you read the
article till the end? After a few paragraphs I said "oh, it is just a
jamming", but furthermore the team explained that some already
available devices are
Hello,
I'm trying to run ekiga-3.3.2p2 on a recent snapshot. Usually, the
"hard to make it work" packages are installing some readme in
/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes, but it is not the case for ekiga.
I've installed ekiga from packages and I don't have the Gnome desktop
installed. Is it ok to
Each Txx series has the Txxp model (notice the p suffix) - it is a
model maximized for performance. Usually, those models contain an
extra video card from professional series FireGL from ATI/AMD and
Quadro from nVidia.
I found this site who can tell you in details what each series is made
of (but
Hello,
What is the point of running OpenBSD (or any other OS) in a virtual
environment? What do you get or why would someone need to do it ?
Thanks.
> The odd thing is that this card works in a machine with FreeBSD 7.1 and that
> identifies the chip as "Atheros 5212". So which chip number is right?
> Could the problem have to do with misidentifying the chip? dmesg, pcidump
> and the driver think it's an AR5311.
> I've got 4.7 running on my l
Seeing the work that is done on nginx as Daily changelog shows I was
thinking the same, that eventualy nginx will replace httpd (it cannot
replace apache).
About that "too many files open", I run it this once, but Stuart
Henderson suggested to alter the values in /etc/login.conf. I was
expecting so
>> Seeing the work that is done on nginx as Daily changelog shows I was
>> thinking the same, that eventualy nginx will replace httpd (it cannot
>> replace apache).
>> About that "too many files open", I run it this once, but Stuart
>> Henderson suggested to alter the values in /etc/login.conf. I w
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> >> Seeing the work that is done on nginx as Daily changelog shows I was
>> >> thinking the same, that eventualy nginx will replace httpd (it cannot
>> >> replace apache).
>> >> About that "too many files open", I run it this once, but Stuar
Well, I have to correct a mistake. I was saying back in this thread
that I got the idea of login.conf being configured for minimal systems
from FAQ, the OpenBSD FAQ. I think I put it in the wrong way and I got
it actualy from Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the paranoid (page 126).
So,to Nick Holland,
A little bit late, but on topic (and very very true):
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2005-02-28/rtfm_jd.jpg
> Andres Perera
> if you cant install through network because you only got one machine
So you can't install OpenBSD but you CAN download the pre-made OpenBSD images?
>and feel that guerrilla overwriting your mbr after installing the locks within
>another os in
> order to do a hdd boot is too r
Hello,
Maybe you could send the soundcard to somebody who can fix the driver.
Once it is done, you'll have it back with a shiny driver. I don't know
the procedure, but you can ask here, I think.
> Michel Blais wrote
> Anyone had a look at Qualcomm collaboration summit to kill proprietary
> drivers ? I'm supprised I didn't see any mail about this.
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/87328384/Linux-Collaboaration-Summit-Qualcomm
If this is not a joke or a hoax, it is very funny how the authors
man
> Andres Perera wote:
> i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama
It is not. As for the understanding part, you need to identify what is
stopping you in the first place - is it that english is not your first
language and you don't have enough of it, or is it that you rea
> Andres Perera wote:
> i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama
It is not. As for the understanding part, you need to identify what is
stopping you in the first place - is it that english is not your first
language and you don't have enough of it, or is it that you rea
> Andres Perera wrote:
> read very slowly
> if they don't use the following to boot:
> * bootp (requires more than one system)
> * a cd (requires an optical drive)
> * a floppy (requires a floppy drive)
> then they boot from hdd. it doesn't matter if it's usb, sata or what have you
I think you a
Hmm, I see in the text that should be True/False value, is it
working with on and off ?
> Joe Gain wrote:
> So much for diversity, I guess.
Chaos bringing diversity is not desirable.
> I find the group-think here fairly disappointing, especially as this
> is the general usage list and not just for OpenBSD developers.
The purpose of this group (list) is not the personal please of
Hi,
Nice article about Paris. Can someone point out what text editors are
open in that picture?
I don't want to start the old war about editors, I'm just interested
what other options are ...
Thanks.
I was using trafshow from packages, it was quick to install and very simple.
> David Coppa wrote:
> Just found this. It seems interesting:
> http://notion.sourceforge.net/
> cheers,
> David
This is interesting too (first paragraph), from the Ion author:
http://tuomov.iki.fi/software
Hello,
I have an old hardware using OpenBSD and installing from snapshots
gives me this kernel stop. The dmesg from a working version, output
messages and details are at this link:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132741797807073&w=2
There is no kernel panic, it is just a kernel stop.
I saw a p
> Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a
> system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has
> similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically
> switching from X to console and back.
>From Lenovo specification, you systems look
It depends on what you mean by "supported". There is work in progress,
but not all manufacturer specified functions are available, because
the hardware documentation is not free. See the:
man radeon
man radeonold
You need to decide what specific 3D application do you want to run and
check for sup
I don't know about installing on USB, but the copy to/from FAT ( -t
msdos )has increased noticeable with new snapshots.
Hello,
I'm using a recent snapshot install and I see some strange behaviour
from time to time: the ttyC0 is not started and I can't login. The
computer stops loading it after date/time message from the boot and
keyboard login is not possible, ssh is not accepted and hangs forever.
All I can tell i
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