On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM Andy Bradford < [email protected]> wrote:
> Thus said Terry Cocksworth on Sat, 23 May 2026 14:04:06 -0000: > > > There are no substantial signs that too little storage is the problem. > > One way to test this hypothesis is to create a filesystem that > intentionally has too little storage and see if the behavior changes. > I think Terry meant that if you have plenty of space then too little storage is not likely to be the problem. But if you actually do have too little storage then of course that will be the problem. This is easy to reproduce, just install 7.9/amd64 on a fresh machine with 2GB for /usr (4194304 blocks) and nothing for /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, etc. (i.e. all of /usr in a single 2GB partition). A 2GB /usr partition is just barely big enough to install everything, but it's not enough to run reorder_kernel without getting the "failed" error, after which df reports a severe lack of space in /usr: openbsd79a-test# df /usr Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0d 4050876 4050644 -202308 106% /usr It looks like the person who started this thread was having trouble with insufficient RAM rather than insufficient storage. Either can cause reorder_kernel to fail. -ken
