On 08 May 2019, mayur...@acm.org wrote: > What could be NetBSD-specific issues that would require provider's help? I > have faced none till now. Just curious.
At least for VPS sometimes one suffers from the imperfect imitation provided by the virtualization platform where kernel- or driver-specific issues arise. For example, I may now be misremembering details but I /think/ that with Bytemark I was running into weird timing issues with OpenBSD but not NetBSD and the problem turned out to be specific to the version of KVM that they were running (and there was a KVM config option that could work around it). The bug centered on the emulation of local APIC in repeated mode: commands like "sleep 1" would take increasingly long, the longer the server was up! In those cases, having a provider who knows what the BSDs are and has other customers using them (so they can confirm issues, try moving to different nodes, prioritize for virtualization platform adjustment or upgrade, etc.) is welcome. -- Mark
