On Tue, 2025-12-16 at 20:33 +0000, H. Hartzer wrote: > On Tue Nov 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM UTC, Robert B. Carleton wrote: > > Something I'll add is about using multiple hard drives to spread > > out the > > input/output. I've found with backups that life is much better if > > the > > drives that store the backups are separate (/srv/backup with its > > own > > drive) from the OpenBSD system partitions. Maybe moving the monero > > LMDB > > to its own SSD drive would help prevent the system from stalling? > > You > > might have already tried it. > > Hi Robert, > > I think you are right about storing backups on separate drives. > > I haven't tried its own SSD, but even with NVMe, on an otherwise > unloaded system, Monero gets to a point where it bogs the system to a > nearly unresponsive state. > > Sadly, despite considerable testing, I've not found a reliable way to > run a Monero daemon on OpenBSD. I can get the node synced, but even > synced it eventually gets so unresponsive that it's not really > usable. > > I think my next test will be Debian + Monero under VMM, sadly. > > I've tried both of the fleshed out ports that I've seen, on both 7.7 > and > 7.8, with various db-sync options. > > Maybe someone else has had more luck than I have? > > -Henrich
I'm actually running monero on Debian Linux (trixie), but it's still on an external SSD. This had more to do with the storage requirements and the existing hardware that I had. An SSD was bought for the purpose. I chose XFS rather than ext4 based on anecdotal reporting about XFS performance with large files. Sorry, I didn't benchmark... I didn't try monero on the Debian system disk. You might want to give an external SSD a go before moving to Linux. With some small exceptions, I prefer OpenBSD to Debian.
