Re: Portable curses

2018-08-13 Thread Brett Lymn
Have you submitted a PR with that patch? The usage of ncurses in pkgsrc is not always straightforward, sometimes IMHO it is used as the least path of resistance but sometimes there are good reasons (though, possibly reasons that are easily fixed...) to use ncurses but a lot of the time things will

Re: What are all these core files?

2018-08-13 Thread John D. Baker
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Dan LaBell wrote: As your reply seems directed at me instead of the OP (Cc:ed), > A question , and some pointless advice: > Q: Does the package require linux emulation? No. > A: maybe try rzip on those core files What is 'rzip' and what would "try rzip on those core files"

Re: What are all these core files?

2018-08-13 Thread Dan LaBell
On Jul 30, 2018, at 9:41 AM, John D. Baker wrote: Yes, those are core files related to various "xscreensaver" display modes (/usr/pkg/libexec/xscreensaver/*). If you have "xscreensaver-demo" installed, you might be able to see what happens when those modes are selected to run. A question

Re: NetBSD disk I/O

2018-08-13 Thread Michael van Elst
b...@grex.org (Andy Ball) writes: >There is literally a pile of 2.5" SATA disks on my desk >where I see very slow *write* performance. The example I >just tested wrote at about 5 MBytes/sec and read at 90 MB/S. >I have been working on the assumption that this was caused >by some incompatibili

Re: NetBSD disk I/O

2018-08-13 Thread John D. Baker
A literal pile of 2.5-inch SATA disks, you say? If they were pulls from a hardware RAID box or some such, the disks' firmware may disable write caches by default. I have a couple of Seagate OEM HP disks that came out of a RAID system and their performance (both read and write) was dismal until I

Re: NetBSD block vs raw disk I/O

2018-08-13 Thread Mike Pumford
On 12/08/2018 16:34, Sad Clouds wrote: OK, I cloned NetBSD VM, kept everything the same, but installed Debian with XFS file system. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=out bs=1M count=1 conv=fsync this gives 682 MB/sec which is what I would normally expect Just dug into my IO settings a bit. My NetB

NetBSD disk I/O

2018-08-13 Thread Andy Ball
Hello, I read with interest the thread about Sad Clouds' disk performance issues. What I'm seeing is probably not related aside from being disk I/O and that we both use crude speed tests based on dd. There is literally a pile of 2.5" SATA disks on my desk where I see very slow *write* pe

Re: Libreoffice after upgrade to NetBSD 8.0

2018-08-13 Thread Cág
Bruce Nagel wrote: > I think there is still an issue in that pkgin refused to install it, > and I wonder why I had to manually install libraries that it should > have been pulling in automagically (as I understand it) but at least > I have a working office suite again. A simple `make update` usua

Re: Libreoffice after upgrade to NetBSD 8.0

2018-08-13 Thread Bruce Nagel
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, C??g wrote: Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:00:21 -0500 From: "[utf-8] C??g" To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Libreoffice after upgrade to NetBSD 8.0 Bruce Nagel wrote: File attached for the output of that, thanks for the tip on using tee. It appears to still be fai

Re: Some questions about NetBSD

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Greg Troxel wrote: Next, I noticed that there was a lot of things installed. For example, I don't need X11. On Linux, pretty much everything is managed by the package manager, but pkgsrc only takes care of /usr/pkg. That's how it is. Ancient BSD tradition is to have things

Re: Curious/strange calendar entry

2018-08-13 Thread Alistair Crooks
Unknown, but not the first enquiry about this: See also https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/1999-August/000109.html On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 18:51, Paul Goyette wrote: > Got this entry today: > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > > This is presumed to be some sort of