On 2015/11/18 07:30, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> > wrote: > >> I only just noticed that, trying to watch a video while having a web > >> browser open at the same time, I don't get any sound. > >> > >> Only going through recent daily insecurity emails, had I found out that: > >> > >> sndiod_flags= > >> > >> in /etc/rc.conf, has been changed to: > >> > >> sndiod_flags=NO > >> > >> on snapshots from around the 10th November. > >> > >> The source in CVS doesn't have that change. I couldn't find any > >> information about it in the mailing list archives either. > >> > >> What (if any) is the reason behind it? > > > > Testing reactions. > > One down, two to go: check_quotas, pflogd_flags :)
It's really a required part of the audio layer for many uses. Various parts were removed from the kernel because they were moved to sndiod. Hopefully it will back after the cleanup. (I don't notice this on my workstation because I have sndiod_flags=-f rsnd/1..) > At least those are the three things I always disable on new firewalls. > check_quotas is harmless, but just unnecessary if I don't use quotas. > pflogd can fill-up /var if "log" is added to a frequently-matching > rule (had that happen to me once). "don't do that then" ;-) You can use "log to pflog1" for things which you don't want pflogd to see. It might be useful to run newsyslog more frequently if you have small partitions..
