Re: openbsd.org, openssh.com server(s) down
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de> wrote: > 2016-03-15 14:31 GMT+01:00 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com>: > > is it only I who cannot connect to either > > of openbsd.org and openssh.com, or > > Nope. > http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/openbsd.org > > Best >Martin > They're back up. Any info on what caused the outage? (Just curious) -Gene
Re: apu1d as an NTP server
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Brian Conway <bcon...@rcesoftware.com> wrote: > How large is your network? > I have ~500 systems/devices that would be pointed at them, would increase 10-20% yearly. I imagine the CPU on the APU is more than capable of handling 10x as much and more. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Peter Hessler <phess...@theapt.org> wrote: > works perfectly fine as an ntp server. you won't see any problems. > Thank you. I've read that some hardware just doesn't work well for NTP, so it's good to hear that. > On Oct 23, 2015 5:42 PM, "Gene" <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> Has anyone here used the PC Engines apu1d system board as an NTP server? >> >> I'm looking at setting up some in house stratum-2 (edit: or stratum-3) >> servers so I can be a >> better neighbor. Wondering what kind of performance/capacity others have >> seen with this board. >> >> Thanks for your time. >> >> -Gene
apu1d as an NTP server
Howdy, Has anyone here used the PC Engines apu1d system board as an NTP server? I'm looking at setting up some in house stratum-2 servers so I can be a better neighbor. Wondering what kind of performance/capacity others have seen with this board. Thanks for your time. -Gene
Re: Thinkpad spyware
Why should OpenBSD users be concerned? Doesn't this injection method only work when the running OS is Windows? Or are you thinking it would be a matter of principle? -Gene On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Shaun Reiger srei...@sprmail.net wrote: In light of what Lenovo has been doing to its customers by installing spyware like superfish and now installing crapware using Microsoft's Windows Platform Binary Table at the BIOS level. Do people still plan on purchasing laptops from them going forward. If so whats your reasoning behind this. Is anyone moving to other PC manufactures now. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/ -- Shaun Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile - Hippocrates (c. 400BC)
Re: SuperMicro thin mini itx?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: We need to build some OpenBSD-based network devices that we'd strongly prefer to be based on SuperMicro hardware. Does anyone know offhand if they offer any products that conform to the Thin-Mini-ITX standard? Their website is unhelpful and so far their marketing email hasn't responded to inquiries. Why would you contact their marketing department? That's silly. Contact their support department. If you don't mind waiting a day or so send them an email. If you want a faster answer call their support line. They'll answer your questions and won't require any type of account with them to get their assistance. -Gene
Re: New LibreSSL mailing lists
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Yegor Timoschenko m...@yegortimoschenko.com wrote: libressl-secur...@openbsd.org - private list for reporting severe vulnerabilities in OpenSSL or LibreSSL to the core LibreSSL team. Why is the list private? It doesn't combine with full disclosure principle that OpenBSD has listed on Security webpage: It's probably a requirement to get advanced notifications from the OpenSSL project. -Gene
Re: C.H.I.P
I was actually considering picking up the $150 'KERNEL HACKERS ONLY' tier and passing along the alpha board to someone in September. Does an OpenBSD developer have interest in it? -Gene On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 05/07/15 21:49, Gene wrote: A new armv7 based computer was announced today via a kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-compu ter Some specs: ââ¬Â¢ 1GHz Allwinner A13 ââ¬Â¢ Maili400 GPU ââ¬Â¢ 512MB RAM ââ¬Â¢ 4 GB flash storage ââ¬Â¢ Composite video (VGA and HDMI available with adapter) ââ¬Â¢ USB port ââ¬Â¢ Realtek 2-in-1 Bluetooth 4.0 + WIFI B/G/N ââ¬Â¢ I2C + SPI + UART + 8 x GPIO ââ¬Â¢ Built in battery circuit for 3.7V batteries. I see the OpenBSD/armv7 information page lists support for Allwinner A1X chips. If this project becomes a reality is there a possibility OpenBSD might be made to run on this board? -Gene Buy some for the developers and it might become a reality. Cheers Fred
C.H.I.P
A new armv7 based computer was announced today via a kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-compu ter Some specs: ⢠1GHz Allwinner A13 ⢠Maili400 GPU ⢠512MB RAM ⢠4 GB flash storage ⢠Composite video (VGA and HDMI available with adapter) ⢠USB port ⢠Realtek 2-in-1 Bluetooth 4.0 + WIFI B/G/N ⢠I2C + SPI + UART + 8 x GPIO ⢠Built in battery circuit for 3.7V batteries. I see the OpenBSD/armv7 information page lists support for Allwinner A1X chips. If this project becomes a reality is there a possibility OpenBSD might be made to run on this board? -Gene
Re: OpenBSD as base OS for Virtualization
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: So question is: What Virtualization solutions OpenBSD support? OpenBSD supports SPARC ldomains, but you have to have SPARC hw :P There is support of some virtio devices (vio, vioblock, broken vioscsi, vio balloon...) which are supported by qemu/kvm, xen. There's at least one developer using ESXi thus he/they take care of needed drivers (vmx). Even I like ESXi the most, I would go with KVM or Xen if x86 HW is used. Why? ESXi has very restricted features in free version. KVM/Xen distributions offer you much more features (live migration, etc...) and they are also OSS. Xen got finally some nice web ui (watching just pictures) https://xen-orchestra.com/#/... Xen Orchestra was not created by nor is it supported by the Xen Project. There are a lot of different front-end managers for Xen out there. -Gene
Re: Home server rack recommendations?
rackmountgears on eBay has some decent stuff in the $200-$300 price range (not including shipping). http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=rackmountgears_nkw=cabinet I bought an 18U cabinet with casters from them in 2013. Still holding up very well. It's a pain to assemble, though. :) -Gene On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Kent R. Spillner kspill...@acm.org wrote: Can anyone recommend a good server rack for home? Ideally something with casters so I can move it around, preferably 12-16U. I found several via Google but my primary concern is the quality durability of the casters. Not that I plan on wheeling this old gear around a lot, I just want the piece of mind that a caster won't snap off when I do. :)
Re: lynx is gone?
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Theo, I respect you as a person and I respect your work. This said, I can also tell you that, after a few years reading misc@, there is still one thing that I do not understand about your colourful answers to several mails. Not all the people who run obsd can, for various personal reasons of their own, contribute as a coder. But they still can contribute as users, reporting problems or making suggestions. This does not necessarily mean they order you what to do or not to do, don't take it personally. They just love to run obsd, so they try to do their best. My grandpa taught me that when people don't tell you things it's because they just don't care anymore. With their detailed answers, for instance, Stuart, Giancarlo and Ingo showed attention to my problem as a user, analyzing things just on a logical viewpoint. I perfectly accept their polite way of answering. Here nobody was making making a wishlist for obsd like I want zfs, xfs, ext4, pf multicore, etc.. The point is that here, often, the moment you got used to a tool, the day after it's gone/modified. This creates frustration in the average user, like me. Uhm, excuse me, I definitely want all of those things. If I don't get them right now I'll stomp my feet and cry until I do! Of course we're still a pkg_add away but, hey, isn't denying to consider that most people will keep using that tool a contradiction? Yes, base will be pure and safe, but at the same time it will diminish functionality, depending more and more from packages. This said, this is your OS, delete everything you like! Just be respectful, please. This discussion started off with disrespect to the project's developers and continued throughout much of it. Respect is something to be earned, don't expect to get it for free. -Gene Il 05/mar/2015 21:43 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org ha scritto: So it looks like that, till some months ago, everybody here was on the wrong OS and risking their lives, as lynx was in base! Such hyperbole! Such drama! Impressive. If you don't like our software, there are other options out there for you to use. In the end, it is our software, and we get to make our own choices. That is fair. People who get to make choices, tend to care, and tend to try to make things better for themselves and everyone, according to a narrow definition, but there you have it. No hyperbole or drama needed. You can run something else, Sir.
Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Janjaap van Velthooven janj...@stack.nl wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried with FFS, it didn't work. Personally I would just try to tar to the usb device and skip having a filesystem on the usb device; that way there is no filesystem to be incompatible. Such a simple and elegant solution. Having never done this before I just tested it. Very slick. Cheers, -- Ãtienne Janjaap van Velthooven -- / __/ /_/ __/ /_ __/ __/ /___ / / /_ __/___/_/_ /___ / / __/ /___ / / janj...@stack.nl /___/_/_/_/_/_/_/___/_/_/
Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall
To expand on Alexander's point, look at the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html If you aren't doing a lot of filtering, just passing traffic over multiple interfaces, more cores might be beneficial. -Eugene On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Salmin alexan...@salmin.biz wrote: I might start a flame now but the higher freq and less core model is the better choice unless your firewall will do other things than packetfiltering and routing. On 2015-02-18 22:30:31, ML mail wrote: Hi, Stupid question but if you would have to choose between two different Intel CPUs for an OpenBSD firewall using 4 to 6 Intel NICs with all /24 networks behind and around 50-60 Mbit/s average traffic would you rather choose the CPU with higher Frequency and less cores or for a CPU with lower frequency but more cores? For example: - E5-2630Lv3, 20M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 8 cores: http://ark.intel.com/products/83357/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2630L-v3-20M-Cache-1_80-GHz - E5-2637v3, 15M Cache, 3.50 GHz, 4 cores: http://ark.intel.com/products/83358/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2637-v3-15M-Cache-3_50-GHz Or asked differently, which are the importants criteria to look at first for a CPU intended to be used in an OpenBSD firewall? Regards ML
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 23:25 schrieb Gene: That is not the extent of the sudo settings. You have to look at the sudoers file to check whether the env settings are kept or not. ??? Sorry - it was a looong day: What _exactly_ do I have to look at? That line %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: ALL was right from the sudoers-file. Look at the entire sudoers file, not just one line. Specifically look for env_reset and env_keep. Try bypassing sudo entirely: $ sudo su - # export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # pkg_add -ui So effectively you suggest running with root-privileges? OK, let's go: You're doing it with root privileges regardless. That's how sudo works. ~ $ sudo su - # export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # pkg_add -ui Couldn't find updates for GraphicsMagick-1.3.20, ImageMagick-6.7.7.7p8, OpenEXR-1.6.1p2, R-3.1.2, Xaw3d-1.5p2, ... [ all the other packages ] Nope - this did not do the trick... (at least the connect was not lost). Okay, so now it's an issue of how you have your package source defined I believe. I'm guessing it's defined in your personal .profile and not in root's. How do you have the package source defined? Best, STEFAN
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:37 PM, trondd tro...@gmail.com wrote: He's using http protocol. Just because the hostname has ftp in it, doesn't mean it's the ftp protocol. It's not just the hostname I'm basing it off of, it's the error message: ~ $ sudo pkg_add -ui quirks-2.52 signed on 2015-02-14T12:43:06Z Error from http://ftp.hostserver.de/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/curl-7.40.0.tgz ftp: connect: No route to host It's using ftp. I'm not familiar with how package management works with OpenBSD, so I don't know if this is a weird quirk of the pkg_add command or if he's not setting his package source properly. Also, yes, I believe sudo only carries over the environment variables explicitly told to do so. Can you download packages with a web browser? Have you tried using the ftp program directly? When you loose connection, can you get to other web sites or is your entire network connection down? Do you have access to the Fitz!Box or whatever to see what it's doing?
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
It looks like http_proxy is being set, but you're getting packages from an ftp server. You need to define the ftp_proxy variable as well. -Gene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:58 PM, trondd tro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/17/15, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 20:36 schrieb trondd: When you are behind your server are you using NAT to get to the internet or a proxy? If proxy, do you have the proxy environment variables set? Tim. Hi Tim, thanks for caring. No - I am not behind the server: It is just another machine in the same internal net. So no NAT. But yes - the proxy-variable is set: ~ $ cat .profile | grep proxy export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 BUT - if you check my second post you will notice that pkg_add does NOT get in contact with the squid (port 3128) but directly to 217.31.80.35:80 (being ftp.hostserver.de) Yeah, but it also show you have a 192.168 IP address which is not routable. You have to be connecting to the internet through something. Another friendly guy suggested to disable pf and give pkg_add a try without - I did so but at gnome-keyrings the connection was lost. So you can reach the server and get some packages?
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
Squid can work as an FTP proxy, and I imagine in your case it probably does. Try setting it and trying the pkg_add command again. Additionally, you'll want to make sure that your proxy environment variables are being passed through sudo. If sudo is configured to use env_reset and env_keep and it isn't retaining those variables then the proxy won't be used at all. -Eugene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 22:20 schrieb Gene: It looks like http_proxy is being set, but you're getting packages from an ftp server. You need to define the ftp_proxy variable as well. Hi Gene, Hi Gene, thanks for your advice. I am not shure if setting an ftp_proxy-variable might help here as the http-proxy is not 'in-between'. I'll try to describe the layout: +---Laptop Internet -- Fritz!Box --| +---Squid-Server For anything http-related Laptop gets the pages from Squid-server, everything else (like ftp-related matter, e.g. pkg_add) goes directly via Fritz!Box to the 'net. From what I know the Fritz!Box does not act as an ftp-server. Beside this: pkg_add from Squid-server 'just works' (tm). There is s.th. wrong with the Laptop - but I am lost by now... =-(
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
Also, note that the value between the two variables will be the same: e.g. http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 -Gene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: Squid can work as an FTP proxy, and I imagine in your case it probably does. Try setting it and trying the pkg_add command again. Additionally, you'll want to make sure that your proxy environment variables are being passed through sudo. If sudo is configured to use env_reset and env_keep and it isn't retaining those variables then the proxy won't be used at all. -Eugene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 22:20 schrieb Gene: It looks like http_proxy is being set, but you're getting packages from an ftp server. You need to define the ftp_proxy variable as well. Hi Gene, Hi Gene, thanks for your advice. I am not shure if setting an ftp_proxy-variable might help here as the http-proxy is not 'in-between'. I'll try to describe the layout: +---Laptop Internet -- Fritz!Box --| +---Squid-Server For anything http-related Laptop gets the pages from Squid-server, everything else (like ftp-related matter, e.g. pkg_add) goes directly via Fritz!Box to the 'net. From what I know the Fritz!Box does not act as an ftp-server. Beside this: pkg_add from Squid-server 'just works' (tm). There is s.th. wrong with the Laptop - but I am lost by now... =-(
Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections
That is not the extent of the sudo settings. You have to look at the sudoers file to check whether the env settings are kept or not. Try bypassing sudo entirely: $ sudo su - # export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 # pkg_add -ui -Gene On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de wrote: Am 02/17/15 um 22:54 schrieb Gene: Squid can work as an FTP proxy, and I imagine in your case it probably does. Try setting it and trying the pkg_add command again. Additionally, you'll want to make sure that your proxy environment variables are being passed through sudo. If sudo is configured to use env_reset and env_keep and it isn't retaining those variables then the proxy won't be used at all. -Eugene Hi Eugene, thank you for your time - really appreciate it! Of course I gave your suggestion a try, even though I was shure it would not make a difference: I have described the situation right now at home - but the very same behaviour could be reported while being in a hotel using their WLAN. SUDO-settings: %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: ALL (this is not a server but my personal laptop to this seems to be OK) ~ $ cat .profile | grep proxy export http_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.178.23:3128 ~ $ sudo pkg_add -ui quirks-2.52 signed on 2015-02-17T13:51:20Z g++-4.8.4p1:.libs1-gcc-4.8.3p1+.libs1-gcc-4.8.3p3+gcc-4.8.4p1-gcc-4.8.4p2: ok g++-4.8.4p1-4.8.4p1: ok gcj-4.8.4p1-4.8.4p1: ok hpijs-3.15.2-3.15.2: ok Error from http://ftp.hostserver.de/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/icu4c-54.1p3.tgz ftp: connect: No route to host Bm! Connection lost again. (As I had a 'pkg_add'-run before we reached letter 'h' this time...) I think 'ftp_proxy' can be ruled out. Nevertheless it was worth trying. Thank you and have a nice day! STEFAN
Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Daniel Dickman didick...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 22, 2014, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 00:53, Henrique Lengler wrote: On 2014-12-23 00:50, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: Have you tried installing something other than OpenBSD since you ran into this issue? Since I ran into this issue I can't even access my bios with the HDD sata connected. That can only be a problem with your BIOS. Update it? Get a better one? I don't know. But if your BIOS doesn't work with some drive attached, your BIOS is broken. I just bought a system with what seems like the same problem as in this thread (dell laptop). I upgraded the drive to an ssd. the laptop firmware and the ssd firmware were both upgraded to the latest versions. with windows installed I can press F2 and get into the firmware menu just fine. with openbsd I just get a black screen when I press F2 at boot. I did a test. after i installed openbsd, I overwrote the mbr with all zeroes. when I rebooted I could access the bios menu via F2 again. does seem like a firmware bug based on the contents of the mbr. will see if I can diagnose further. It's not a bug. It's a security feature... -Gene
Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Using any OS on top of any virtual machine is like scratching your left year with your right leg as human. What is the noble purpose of doing that? Gee whiz. How incredibly insightful.
Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Richard E. Thornton thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the typical user? Inexpensive VPS hosting with fast storage. I have one of their small instances (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB storage) I'm paying $5/mo for. I'm pretty happy with it. $ sudo dd if=/dev/vda of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=2048 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 7.31609 s, 294 MB/s On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi, On 16. desember 2014 at 4:17 PM, Lars li...@srdn.de wrote: Says who? Now it's digital ocean - next month it will be somebody else. I seem to fall out of the target group for this. As I don't share your obvious enthusiasm and just don't care - so many rock stars rise and fall. There's never been anyone as cheap, as well-designed and as quickly growing as DigitalOcean. Call them The Beatles, The Bob Marley and the Wailers or what have you. I wrote this thread for the people who do care, and I know a lot of you are lurking out there. O.D.
Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:48 PM, jungle Boogie jungleboog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gene, On 7 December 2014 at 20:39, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I feel its worth mentioning. I probably glossed right over that post. Would you still recommend the 2550L2D-MxPC or move on to something more? I cannot recommend the 2550L2D-MxPC be used in any capacity, Regarding the brand 'OEM Production' that's the only unit on newegg.com with dual LAN. From a brief search the other day, this Jetaway looks appealing, too, but it is slightly more expensive and has fewer reviews: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107095cm_re=mini_pc-_-56-107-095-_-Product It does have intel NICs and way more sata ports. If you're gonna go that route take a look at the ASRock AD2550R/U3S3 motherboard. -Gene -jb --- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
Re: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox
I did not. In fact both HDMI and Displayport outputs worked fine. I also tried the system on a 2560x1440 monitor, that worked as well. I did not test audio, didn't do very much desktop stuff. Firefox and xterm work fine. I still need to spend some time on learning how to install another window manager and play with more desktop stuff. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote: Did you have to do anything special to get HDMI to work? thanks On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a fan of the ASUS Chromebox hardware, specifically the M004U with the Celeron 2955U processor. Comes with 2 GB of RAM, and 16GB SSD. It typically retails for $160 USD. I have a couple running Linux (HTPC and a desktop for my kids). I picked up a third one on black friday for $110 just to play with, was specifically interested in loading OpenBSD on it. 5.6-stable doesn't work because of the lack of USB 3.0 (xhci) support, but 5.6-current installed without issue. The wireless adapter wasn't detected, but the Realtek ethernet device works. I have it driving a 1920x1200 display over HDMI. It's been a long time since I've used OpenBSD as a desktop so I've got a bit to figure out, but thus far this little system is running very nicely. Just in case anyone else is interested in it I'm including dmesg output. Also, if you do try just be aware that the Chromebox has to be put into developer mode and the default BIOS will need to be replaced with coreboot. The Kodi (XBMC) wiki has a good document on doing that. http://kodi.wiki/view/ASUS_Chromebox dmesg output: OpenBSD 5.6-current (RAMDISK_CD) #584: Mon Dec 1 00:41:23 MST 2014 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD real mem = 4215820288 (4020MB) avail mem = 4102762496 (3912MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0x7f69f020 (7 entries) bios0: vendor coreboot version 4.0-7445-ge0d42b6-dirty date 12/02/2014 bios0: Google Panther acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT MCFG APIC HPET SSDT acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2955U @ 1.40GHz, 1397.00 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX ,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,XSAVE, RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,ERMS,INVPCID cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu at mainbus0: not configured ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 40 pins acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (RP01) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (RP02) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (RP03) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP04) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP05) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP06) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP07) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP08) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel Core 4G Host rev 0x09 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel HD Graphics rev 0x09 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) Intel Core 4G HD Audio rev 0x09 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configured xhci0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 Intel 8 Series xHCI rev 0x04: msi usb0 at xhci0: USB revision 3.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel xHCI root hub rev 3.00/1.00 addr 1 Intel 8 Series MEI rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 not configured Intel 8 Series HD Audio rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 not configured ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 Intel 8 Series PCIE rev 0xe4 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Realtek 8168 rev 0x0c: RTL8168G/8111G (0x4c00), msi, address c4:54:44:4d:be:ab rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8251 PHY, rev. 0 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 Intel 8 Series PCIE rev 0xe4 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 Atheros AR9462 rev 0x01 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 Intel 8 Series PCIE rev 0xe4 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 Intel 8 Series LPC rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 not configured ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 8 Series AHCI rev 0x04: msi, AHCI 1.3 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: ATA, SanDisk SSD U110, U221 SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.5001b44bed91e41e sd0: 15272MB, 512 bytes/sector, 31277232 sectors, thin Intel 8 Series SMBus rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured vendor Intel, unknown product 0x9c24 (class DASP subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x04) at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 Logitech USB Receiver rev 2.00/29.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0 wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard
Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70
Search the mailing list history. If you can't find that specific model Soekris you'll likely be able to find information for that NIC chipset (the Intel 82574L). -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Martin Hanson greencopperm...@yandex.com wrote: Hi, Anyone running OpenBSD 5.6 or current on Soekris 6501-70 who wouldn't mind sharing some through-put data for gigabit performance. Regards, MH
Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70
I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I feel its worth mentioning. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:05 PM, jungle Boogie jungleboog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 7 December 2014 at 18:18, Martin Hanson greencopperm...@yandex.com wrote: I would like to be able to run ~100-120 MB/s from one NIC to the other on this box, if possible? Take a look a look at these threads: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg133961.html https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg134259.html And others from here: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/ I was looking at APU systems myself but now I'm leaning towards this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007 No intel NICs but I like the price. Best, j.b. -- --- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
Re: OpenBSD 5.6/current on Soekris 6501-70
I misspoke, in both cases. It died on the 14th month. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I mentioned it one of those threads, I have the 2550L2D-MxPC and one of the NICs died after nine months of use. I might just be unlucky, but I feel its worth mentioning. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:05 PM, jungle Boogie jungleboog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 7 December 2014 at 18:18, Martin Hanson greencopperm...@yandex.com wrote: I would like to be able to run ~100-120 MB/s from one NIC to the other on this box, if possible? Take a look a look at these threads: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg133961.html https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg134259.html And others from here: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/ I was looking at APU systems myself but now I'm leaning towards this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007 No intel NICs but I like the price. Best, j.b. -- --- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
Re: broken links on site
Hahaha. When I went to powercrypt.com it sent me to a different site tried to get me to download an Adobe Flash installer, and not from Adobe's website. -Gene On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Luiz Roberto dos Santos arrowscr...@mail.com wrote: Hi, Since I don't know if the OpenBSD Project still providing support for these products, I don't make a diff, sorry. The following links are broken on http://www.openbsd.org/products.html RTMX (http://www.rtmx.com/) PowerCrypt (http://www.powercrypt.com/) Core Systems (http://www.core.dk/) InSite (http://www.core.dk/products/insite/index_en.html) Regards, L.
OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox
it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8772F rev 2, EC port 0x700 uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 Logitech USB Receiver rev 2.00/29.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 Logitech USB Receiver rev 2.00/29.00 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/1, 17 report ids ums0 at uhidev1 reportid 2: 16 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=4, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 4: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhid2 at uhidev1 reportid 16: input=6, output=6, feature=0 uhid3 at uhidev1 reportid 17: input=19, output=19, feature=0 ugen0 at uhub0 port 4 \M-1???\^D??\^A??\^P??@\^A?? \M-1???\^D??\^A??\^P??@\^A?? rev 1.10/0.01 addr 3 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (e0b7178a47ea0165.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b clock: unknown CMOS layout umass0 at uhub0 port 7 configuration 1 interface 0 Generic USB Storage rev 2.00/2.60 addr 4 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: Generic, Power Saving USB, 0260 SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.05e307270260 sd1: 7580MB, 512 bytes/sector, 15523840 sectors -Gene
Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox)
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: This is very interesting - I've been looking at various small boxes like this to use as a home firewall. The only problem is that not many of them have 2 NICs, and the ones that do are very expensive (higher end Zotac) Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be suitable as a home firewall? Look into the PC Engines ALIX and APU system boards. You can get kits for under $200, or sometimes for less on eBay. http://www.pcengines.ch Great hardware. I have a couple of the ALIX boards. The APU series has gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the mailing list you'll see several mentions for it. What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is there an OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... -Gene (p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists and didn't reply all last time, I apologise for emailing you twice, Alan).
Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox)
I have one of those. Ran pfSense on it for 9 months and worked great, until one of the built-in NICs died. I've since repurposed the system as a Xen host, the last NIC hasn't died yet, but I can't really recommend it. -Gene On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chester T. Field chester.t.fi...@hushmail.com wrote: The lovable scamp Ted Unangst posted about a box with dual broadcoms, Atom CPU, DDR3 RAM, etc for $129 on his blog: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/new-home-router -Chester Enjoy those tacos now, for in a thousand years they will be illegal! Ha ha ha ha-I think we all know why. - Benjamin Franklin On 12/3/2014 at 11:09 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: This is very interesting - I've been looking at various small boxes like this to use as a home firewall. The only problem is that not many of them have 2 NICs, and the ones that do are very expensive (higher end Zotac) Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be suitable as a home firewall? Look into the PC Engines ALIX and APU system boards. You can get kits for under $200, or sometimes for less on eBay. http://www.pcengines.ch Great hardware. I have a couple of the ALIX boards. The APU series has gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the mailing list you'll see several mentions for it. What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is there an OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... -Gene (p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists and didn't reply all last time, I apologise for emailing you twice, Alan).
Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, reza r...@lethalnetworks.com wrote: Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit will put some load on the CPU but it was able to handle it pretty well. I dont have exact PPS for you, but it should be able to do 30mbit/sec easily. The environment will have two WAN connections, each is a 50Mbit/10Mbit pipe. I have a couple of the ALIX2d3 boards myself. They're great little devices. If it can handle 30Mbit it would seem the larger Soekris system (Atom 1.6GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, Intel NICs) should be more than capable. Thank you. -Gene - Original Message - From: Gene gh5...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:20:21 AM Subject: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Andres Genovez andresgeno...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/31 BARDOU Pierre bardo...@mipih.fr Hello, I would be very interested by an OpenBSD port too. Usage : home router with firewall, DNS and DHCP. I am looking into FreeBSD and NetBSD ports, but I would prefer to have the latest PF and OpenSSH versions... plus I am more used to OpenBSD and I like using it :-) If somebody knows X86 hardware able to do the same (routing/firewlling 20 mbps traffic, VLAN, fits in a tiny box, power consumption below 5W, price around 50$) as the raspberry I am interested BTW. I am interested too, can somebody give an advice on what hardware to use? maybe 5 lan or at least two lan? an below 100? For under $100 USD your best bet is to look for a used computer on craigslist or a yard sale and install another NIC in it. But, this will not get you at 5 watts or less. For under $200 look at either PC Engines ALIX boards or Soekris. eBay has plenty of them. You can manage 5W or less this route. For the Raspberry Pi you will not get OpenBSD. You will have to use Linux and configure it manually, including recompiling the kernel with iptables support. You *might* be able to get under $100, but it won't be under 5 watts and it will be a jalopy. USB ethernet adapters start around $25 new. -Gene
Re: Current isolation best practices?
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet jean-phili...@ouellet.biz wrote: Hello misc@, I'm researching locking things down, and I'm wondering what the current best practice is for isolating risky programs. It seems this community has traditionally shunned virtualization as a solution, and also called exclusively chrooting insufficient. Okay, sure. But what is better then? Say, for example, I'm running firefox, and I don't trust it. Running it as-is straight out of pkg_add doesn't run it as its own user: $ ps -o user,command | grep firefox jpouellet firefox As I understand it, the next time a remote code execution vulnerability comes along, it could, among many many other things, read my ~/.ssh/id_rsa and then it's game over. Then don't use a private key without a pass phrase. Or run Firefox under a different user. Or run it in a jail. Or set up a VM on an isolated network and forward that X11 session back to your desktop. Or have a different system on your desk to use for web surfing and use a KVM switch. There are several solutions to the problem you've identified. Let me identify another: you're being way too paranoid. -Gene
Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sean Kamath kam...@moltingpenguin.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Bruno Flückiger inform...@gmx.net wrote: My personal favorites are the boxes from this small company in Switzerland: http://www.pcengines.ch Regards, Bruno The ALIX hardware is incredible. I own two of the ALIX boards (2d3 and 2d13), the second one I picked up recently on eBay for $150 with case and power supply, I added a CF card for an additional ~$10. I already have a serial cable on hand, but that would be at most another $10-$20 to procure. I second the ALIX board being worthy. I don't have as many as Mr Shupe, but I have more than a few. Huh. That seems like a deal for one of the Netgate versions, but pcengines.ch has the 2d13 board for US$104, case for ~US$9 (but no US Power Adapter. :-(). When I bought mine, they shipped quickly (US$33, though). Sean Right now on eBay: ALIX 2d13 + case + power supply + 1 GB CF card for $155 (including shipping) -Gene
Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Bruno Flückiger inform...@gmx.net wrote: On 12/31/12 14:17, BARDOU Pierre wrote: I would be very interested by an OpenBSD port too. Usage : home router with firewall, DNS and DHCP. I am looking into FreeBSD and NetBSD ports, but I would prefer to have the latest PF and OpenSSH versions... plus I am more used to OpenBSD and I like using it If somebody knows X86 hardware able to do the same (routing/firewlling 20 mbps traffic, VLAN, fits in a tiny box, power consumption below 5W, price around 50$) as the raspberry I am interested BTW. A lot of different embedded devices which base on x86 cpus, just ask the web search engine of your trust. It will be hard to get it for only $50. But paying some more bucks for a system which fits the needs is justified in my opinion. My personal favorites are the boxes from this small company in Switzerland: http://www.pcengines.ch Regards, Bruno The ALIX hardware is incredible. I own two of the ALIX boards (2d3 and 2d13), the second one I picked up recently on eBay for $150 with case and power supply, I added a CF card for an additional ~$10. I already have a serial cable on hand, but that would be at most another $10-$20 to procure. The ALIX.2d13 has three full fast ethernet (10/100) NICs that aren't USB devices on a headless x86 compatible system that will utilise ~5W at high to full load for under $200. All in one enclosure and rock solid. Sure, that may sound expensive, but after purchasing a Raspberry Pi with a powered USB hub, one or two USB fast ethernet adapters, an SD card, and whatever other accessories you need it isn't that much of a price difference. Or, you can buy a cheap Atom box, throw in some storage and RAM, and have a much more powerful system at the expense of higher energy usage. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007 That one costs $130 (+taxes and shipping) and has two gig-e NICs. I own a couple of the Raspberry Pi units. They're fantastic little devices, but you'll have to use Linux and have a hodge-podge of accessories to go with it. -Gene (if you see this message twice please forgive me, I'm bad at mailing lists)
Re: Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.0 is now available
I'll buy this for someone who's willing and capable to port OpenBSD to it: http://ubnt.com/wiki/RouterStation_Pro (I'm vaguely aware of the bad blood that exists between the OpenBSD project and Atheros) -Gene On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Johan Ryberg jo...@securit.se wrote: Sorry but we can only support official hardware platforms but you are right, it would be awesome =) Best regards Johan 2011/11/3 Michel Blais mic...@targointernet.com: Would be awsome if the're was support for embedded board MIPS processor. Le 2011-11-03 07:17, Johan Ryberg a icrit : Hi Flashboot is a small infrastructure to build minimal OpenBSD installations suitable for booting of flash and USB devices originally by Damien Miller. Flashboot his is derived from the scripts and tools used to build the OpenBSD installation media and has evolved over the years. You will found Flashboot at Github: https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot We need people to test some of the builds for example WRAP12 and PCENGINES kernel. If you don't want to build by our self there is a full set of images ready to put on a USB memory stick or Flash card media. Best regards Flashboot team -- Michel Blais Administrateur riseau / Network administrator Targo Communications www.targo.ca 514-448-0773
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
I was wrong, just changing the guest OS type did not fix my problem.
The morning following this email I found the CPU being pegged again.
I ended up installing the i386 version of 4.9 and used FreeBSD 32-bit
as the guest os type. These VMs have been running for four days
without a problem. If it occurs again I'll try the other suggestions
provided here.
-Gene
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote:
This problem appears to be resolved. By changing the guest os type
from FreeBSD (64-bit) to Other (64-bit) these vm guests perform
much better.
I found out I could easily duplicate the problem with the following
command:
find / -type f -exec grep -i moo {} \;
After ten or so minutes dmesg would be flooded with the vmware:
sending length failed messages. Looking at the ESXi system
performance, that vm guest would have its core pegged.
After changing the guest os type I ran that find repeatedly in a loop
for 30 minutes, and the problem didn't come back. I switched back and
forth between the OS types a couple of times to confirm my findings.
With the fix in place the CPU utilisation for that vm guest's core did
not go above 75%.
Once again, thank you for your help everyone.
-Gene
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote:
This is just an update, I've still got to try everything that was
suggested before.
This issue is finally occurring again, and I have been able to collect
more information about it:
# uptime
11:46AM up 3 days, 22:50, 1 user, load averages: 1.33, 1.12, 1.10
# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 364 376 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09
/sbin/init
root 17473 0.0 0.3 412 812 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09
syslogd: [priv] (syslogd)
_syslogd 4944 0.0 0.3 420 860 ?? S Wed12PM1:59.70
syslogd -a /var/www/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/log
root 17203 0.0 0.2 572 464 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.01
pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
_pflogd 25836 0.0 0.2 636 384 ?? S Wed12PM1:18.70
pflogd: [running] -s 160 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog (pflogd)
root 20453 0.0 0.4 496 1020 ?? IsWed12PM0:02.17
ntpd: [priv] (ntpd)
_ntp 27033 0.0 0.4 548 1092 ?? S Wed12PM0:36.73
ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd)
_ntp 30318 0.0 0.4 676 1008 ?? I Wed12PM0:00.02
ntpd: dns engine (ntpd)
root 12410 0.0 0.5 616 1384 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.02
/usr/sbin/sshd
root 18650 0.0 0.3 412 832 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.06 inetd
root 13652 0.0 0.4 668 912 ?? IsWed12PM0:04.15 cron
root 12191 0.0 0.8 1216 2116 ?? SsWed12PM1:36.36
sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
root 18822 0.0 1.2 3452 3084 ?? Is11:22AM0:00.13
sshd: gene [priv] (sshd)
gene 27682 0.3 0.9 3420 2312 ?? S 11:22AM0:00.55
sshd: gene@ttyp0 (sshd)
gene 18431 0.0 0.2 616 492 p0 Ss11:22AM0:00.14 -ksh
(ksh)
root 23079 0.1 0.2 692 536 p0 S 11:46AM0:00.07 -ksh
(ksh)
root 19366 0.0 0.1 516 328 p0 R+11:47AM0:00.00 ps -aux
root 17451 0.0 0.3 280 864 C0 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC0
root 23962 0.0 0.3 324 864 C1 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC1
root 2571 0.0 0.3 272 860 C2 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC2
root 9191 0.0 0.3 296 864 C3 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC3
root 2812 0.0 0.3 416 868 C5 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC5
# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq0/clock 34043772 99
irq97/mpi0 7720662
irq112/em0 962370
Total34912075 102
# systat
1 usersLoad 1.10 1.07 1.08 PAUSED Sun Oct 23 11:46:02
2011
memory totals (in KB)PAGING SWAPPING
Interrupts
real virtual free in out in out 105
total
Active12420 12420 185072 ops100
clock
All 55712 55712 447212 pages4
mpi0
1 em0
Proc:r d s wCsw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt forks
6211788 4 102 21 fkppw
fksvm
0.0%Int 0.2%Sys 0.4%Usr 0.0%Nic 99.4%Idle pwait
||||||||||| 2 relck
2 rlkok
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Namei Sys-cacheProc-cacheNo-cache ndcpy
Calls hits%hits
Re: USB mouse
Ignore all of these guys. They're just mad that OpenBSD doesn't support new hardware. You'll need an adapter to get an USB mouse to work. Something like this: www.amazon.com/dp/B000K04SB2 On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: WTF? I use OpenBSD and hate the other operating systems Zantgo El 26-10-2011, a las 20:11, Bryan Irvine sparcta...@gmail.com escribiC3: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: How I can run USB mouse? You have to extract the drivers from the ubuntu linux installation CD.
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
This is just an update, I've still got to try everything that was suggested before. This issue is finally occurring again, and I have been able to collect more information about it: # uptime 11:46AM up 3 days, 22:50, 1 user, load averages: 1.33, 1.12, 1.10 # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.2 364 376 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09 /sbin/init root 17473 0.0 0.3 412 812 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09 syslogd: [priv] (syslogd) _syslogd 4944 0.0 0.3 420 860 ?? S Wed12PM1:59.70 syslogd -a /var/www/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/log root 17203 0.0 0.2 572 464 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.01 pflogd: [priv] (pflogd) _pflogd 25836 0.0 0.2 636 384 ?? S Wed12PM1:18.70 pflogd: [running] -s 160 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog (pflogd) root 20453 0.0 0.4 496 1020 ?? IsWed12PM0:02.17 ntpd: [priv] (ntpd) _ntp 27033 0.0 0.4 548 1092 ?? S Wed12PM0:36.73 ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd) _ntp 30318 0.0 0.4 676 1008 ?? I Wed12PM0:00.02 ntpd: dns engine (ntpd) root 12410 0.0 0.5 616 1384 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.02 /usr/sbin/sshd root 18650 0.0 0.3 412 832 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.06 inetd root 13652 0.0 0.4 668 912 ?? IsWed12PM0:04.15 cron root 12191 0.0 0.8 1216 2116 ?? SsWed12PM1:36.36 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) root 18822 0.0 1.2 3452 3084 ?? Is11:22AM0:00.13 sshd: gene [priv] (sshd) gene 27682 0.3 0.9 3420 2312 ?? S 11:22AM0:00.55 sshd: gene@ttyp0 (sshd) gene 18431 0.0 0.2 616 492 p0 Ss11:22AM0:00.14 -ksh (ksh) root 23079 0.1 0.2 692 536 p0 S 11:46AM0:00.07 -ksh (ksh) root 19366 0.0 0.1 516 328 p0 R+11:47AM0:00.00 ps -aux root 17451 0.0 0.3 280 864 C0 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC0 root 23962 0.0 0.3 324 864 C1 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC1 root 2571 0.0 0.3 272 860 C2 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC2 root 9191 0.0 0.3 296 864 C3 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC3 root 2812 0.0 0.3 416 868 C5 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC5 # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0/clock 34043772 99 irq97/mpi0 7720662 irq112/em0 962370 Total34912075 102 # systat 1 usersLoad 1.10 1.07 1.08 PAUSED Sun Oct 23 11:46:02 2011 memory totals (in KB)PAGING SWAPPING Interrupts real virtual free in out in out 105 total Active12420 12420 185072 ops100 clock All 55712 55712 447212 pages4 mpi0 1 em0 Proc:r d s wCsw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt forks 6211788 4 102 21 fkppw fksvm 0.0%Int 0.2%Sys 0.4%Usr 0.0%Nic 99.4%Idle pwait ||||||||||| 2 relck 2 rlkok noram Namei Sys-cacheProc-cacheNo-cache ndcpy Calls hits%hits %miss % fltcp 14 14 100 2 zfod cow Disks cd0 sd0 fd0 2006 fmin seeks2674 ftarg xfers 4 itarg speed 67K 1 wired sec 0.0 pdfre pdscn pzidle 10 kmapent # dmesg | tail vmware: sending length failed, eax=, ecx= vmt0: failed to send TCLO outgoing ping vmware: sending length failed, eax=, ecx= vmt0: failed to send TCLO outgoing ping vmware: sending length failed, eax=, ecx= vmt0: failed to send TCLO outgoing ping vmware: sending length failed, eax=, ecx= vmt0: failed to send TCLO outgoing ping vmware: sending length failed, eax=, ecx= vmt0: failed to send TCLO outgoing ping My /var/log/messages* files have that pair of error messages in them over 16,000 times. I will go through and try what has been suggested, starting with changing the guest OS type
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
This problem appears to be resolved. By changing the guest os type
from FreeBSD (64-bit) to Other (64-bit) these vm guests perform
much better.
I found out I could easily duplicate the problem with the following command:
find / -type f -exec grep -i moo {} \;
After ten or so minutes dmesg would be flooded with the vmware:
sending length failed messages. Looking at the ESXi system
performance, that vm guest would have its core pegged.
After changing the guest os type I ran that find repeatedly in a loop
for 30 minutes, and the problem didn't come back. I switched back and
forth between the OS types a couple of times to confirm my findings.
With the fix in place the CPU utilisation for that vm guest's core did
not go above 75%.
Once again, thank you for your help everyone.
-Gene
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote:
This is just an update, I've still got to try everything that was
suggested before.
This issue is finally occurring again, and I have been able to collect
more information about it:
# uptime
11:46AM up 3 days, 22:50, 1 user, load averages: 1.33, 1.12, 1.10
# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 364 376 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09
/sbin/init
root 17473 0.0 0.3 412 812 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.09
syslogd: [priv] (syslogd)
_syslogd 4944 0.0 0.3 420 860 ?? S Wed12PM1:59.70
syslogd -a /var/www/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/log
root 17203 0.0 0.2 572 464 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.01
pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
_pflogd 25836 0.0 0.2 636 384 ?? S Wed12PM1:18.70
pflogd: [running] -s 160 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog (pflogd)
root 20453 0.0 0.4 496 1020 ?? IsWed12PM0:02.17
ntpd: [priv] (ntpd)
_ntp 27033 0.0 0.4 548 1092 ?? S Wed12PM0:36.73
ntpd: ntp engine (ntpd)
_ntp 30318 0.0 0.4 676 1008 ?? I Wed12PM0:00.02
ntpd: dns engine (ntpd)
root 12410 0.0 0.5 616 1384 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.02
/usr/sbin/sshd
root 18650 0.0 0.3 412 832 ?? IsWed12PM0:00.06 inetd
root 13652 0.0 0.4 668 912 ?? IsWed12PM0:04.15 cron
root 12191 0.0 0.8 1216 2116 ?? SsWed12PM1:36.36
sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
root 18822 0.0 1.2 3452 3084 ?? Is11:22AM0:00.13
sshd: gene [priv] (sshd)
gene 27682 0.3 0.9 3420 2312 ?? S 11:22AM0:00.55
sshd: gene@ttyp0 (sshd)
gene 18431 0.0 0.2 616 492 p0 Ss11:22AM0:00.14 -ksh
(ksh)
root 23079 0.1 0.2 692 536 p0 S 11:46AM0:00.07 -ksh
(ksh)
root 19366 0.0 0.1 516 328 p0 R+11:47AM0:00.00 ps -aux
root 17451 0.0 0.3 280 864 C0 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC0
root 23962 0.0 0.3 324 864 C1 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC1
root 2571 0.0 0.3 272 860 C2 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC2
root 9191 0.0 0.3 296 864 C3 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.02
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC3
root 2812 0.0 0.3 416 868 C5 Is+ Wed12PM0:00.01
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC5
# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq0/clock 34043772 99
irq97/mpi0 7720662
irq112/em0 962370
Total34912075 102
# systat
1 usersLoad 1.10 1.07 1.08 PAUSED Sun Oct 23 11:46:02
2011
memory totals (in KB)PAGING SWAPPING
Interrupts
real virtual free in out in out 105
total
Active12420 12420 185072 ops100
clock
All 55712 55712 447212 pages4
mpi0
1 em0
Proc:r d s wCsw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt forks
6211788 4 102 21 fkppw
fksvm
0.0%Int 0.2%Sys 0.4%Usr 0.0%Nic 99.4%Idle pwait
||||||||||| 2 relck
2 rlkok
noram
Namei Sys-cacheProc-cacheNo-cache ndcpy
Calls hits%hits %miss % fltcp
14 14 100 2 zfod
cow
Disks cd0 sd0 fd0 2006 fmin
seeks2674 ftarg
xfers 4 itarg
speed 67K 1 wired
sec 0.0
Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside from the OS installation, I haven't installed anything on them yet. They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of these VMs although the CPU shows as being idle. Connecting via SSH and switching to root can take over a minute. If I reboot the virtual machines they perform well for a short time, but within 15-30 minutes they slow down to a crawl again. These four machines are spread across two VM hosts, each with six cores and 16 GB of RAM each. I haven't started doing anything with these VMs yet. I have other VMs installed (Linux and FreeBSD) and they don't have this problem. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there tuning I can do to make it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
I'm using amd64. I'll try i386 later today to see if the issue occurs again. Another person replied to me saying i386 works fine for him in ESXi 5. I had the VMs powered off. I started them back up and am trying to reproduce the problem. So far dmesg isn't giving me anything beyond the messages from boot. Thank you for the replies, it is much appreciated. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Johan Ryberg jo...@securit.se wrote: What hardware version did you use? Have you tried different? // Johan 2011/10/19 Gonzalo L. R. gonz...@x61.com.ar: dmesg? On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:55:19 -0700, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside from the OS installation, I haven't installed anything on them yet. They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of these VMs although the CPU shows as being idle. Connecting via SSH and switching to root can take over a minute. If I reboot the virtual machines they perform well for a short time, but within 15-30 minutes they slow down to a crawl again. These four machines are spread across two VM hosts, each with six cores and 16 GB of RAM each. I haven't started doing anything with these VMs yet. I have other VMs installed (Linux and FreeBSD) and they don't have this problem. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there tuning I can do to make it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. Thanks. -Gene -- Sending from my computer
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Joe S js.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of these What sort of hardware is ESXi running on? AMD Phenom II X6 3.2 GHz processor, 16 GB RAM.
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.orgwrote: Haven't tried esxi 5 but I have some hack VMs under 4.1 which are working ok (i386 and amd64). Some things to try:- - Try different guest os types in the vm config page. On 4.1 I typically set rhel 5 32-bit which seems to work fairly well, even for amd64, and uses the vic(4) network driver. I used FreeBSD 64bit for the guest type. I will try using different guest types if switching to i386 doesn't improve it. - Try i386. - If you're overcommitting RAM, can you avoid doing that? I have allocated less than 50% of the RAM, and almost none of it is being used. - Might be worth giving -current a spin (or 5.0 when it's available - release isn't far off - note that people who pre-order CDs often receive them before the official release date ;-) Does 5.0 have VM specific features in it? On 2011-10-19, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). I set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of disk space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside from the OS installation, I haven't installed anything on them yet. They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of these VMs although the CPU shows as being idle. Connecting via SSH and switching to root can take over a minute. If I reboot the virtual machines they perform well for a short time, but within 15-30 minutes they slow down to a crawl again. These four machines are spread across two VM hosts, each with six cores and 16 GB of RAM each. I haven't started doing anything with these VMs yet. I have other VMs installed (Linux and FreeBSD) and they don't have this problem. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there tuning I can do to make it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
When the initial dmesg question was asked (dmesg?) I didn't understand that it was a request for the entire dmesg output. I thought he was asking if errors were showing up in dmesg. I have attached the entirety of a dmesg output. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:53 PM, James Shupe jsh...@osre.org wrote: What's it take to get an actual dmesg around here? Just post the output for us to look at regardless of whether or not you think the messages at boot are important. They're needed to troubleshoot any problem like this. OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC) #477: Wed Mar 2 06:50:31 MST 2011 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 267321344 (254MB) avail mem = 246403072 (234MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (268 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version 6.00 date 01/07/2011 bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP BOOT APIC MCFG SRAT HPET acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S3) USB_(S1) P2P0(S3) S1F0(S3) S2F0(S3) S3F0(S3) S4F0 (S3) S5F0(S3) S6F0(S3) S7F0(S3) S8F0(S3) S9F0(S3) Z00Q(S3) Z00R(S3) Z00S(S3) Z00 T(S3) Z00U(S3) Z00V(S3) Z00W(S3) Z00X(S3) Z00Y(S3) Z00Z(S3) Z010(S3) Z011(S3) Z0 12(S3) Z013(S3) Z014(S3) Z015(S3) Z016(S3) Z017(S3) Z018(S3) Z019(S3) Z01A(S3) Z 01B(S3) Z01C(S3) P2P1(S3) S1F0(S3) S2F0(S3) S3F0(S3) S4F0(S3) S5F0(S3) S6F0(S3) S7F0(S3) S8F0(S3) S9F0(S3) Z00Q(S3) Z00R(S3) Z00S(S3) Z00T(S3) Z00U(S3) Z00V(S3) ! Z00W(S3) Z00X(S3) Z00Y(S3) Z00Z(S3) Z010(S3) Z011(S3) Z012(S3) Z013(S3) Z014(S3 ) Z015(S3) Z016(S3) Z017(S3) Z018(S3) Z019(S3) Z01A(S3) Z01B(S3) Z01C(S3) P2P2(S 3) S1F0(S3) S2F0(S3) S3F0(S3) S4F0(S3) S5F0(S3) S6F0(S3) S7F0(S3) S8F0(S3) S9F0( S3) Z00Q(S3) Z00R(S3) Z00S(S3) Z00T(S3) Z00U(S3) Z00V(S3) Z00W(S3) Z00X(S3) Z00Y (S3) Z00Z(S3) Z010(S3) Z011(S3) Z012(S3) Z013(S3) Z014(S3) Z015(S3) Z016(S3) Z01 7(S3) Z018(S3) Z019(S3) Z01A(S3) Z01B(S3) Z01C(S3) P2P3(S3) S1F0(S3) S2F0(S3) S3 ! F0(S3) S4F0(S3) S5F0(S3) S6F0(S3) S7F0(S3) S8F0(S3) S9F0(S3) Z00Q(S3) Z00R(S3) Z 00S(S3) Z00T(S3) Z00U(S3) Z00V(S3) Z00W(S3) Z00X(S3) Z00Y(S3) Z00Z(S3) Z010(S3) Z011(S3) Z012(S3) Z013(S3) Z014(S3) Z015(S3) Z016(S3) Z017(S3) Z018(S3) Z019(S3) Z01A(S3) Z01B(S3) Z01C(S3) PE40(S3) S1F0(S3) PE50(S3) S1F0(S3) PE60(S3) S1F0(S3 ) PE70(S3) S1F0(S3) PE80(S3) S1F0(S3) PE90(S3) S1F0(S3) PEA0(S3) S1F0(S3) PEB0(S 3) S1F0(S3) PEC0(S3) S1F0(S3) PED0(S3) S1F0(S3) PEE0(S3) S1F0(S3) PE41(S3) S1F0( S3) PE42(S3)! S1F0(S3) PE43(S3) S1F0(S3) PE44(S3) S1F0(S3) PE45(S3) S1F0(S3) PE46 (S3) S1F0(S3) PE47(S3) S1F0(S3) PE51(S3) S1F0(S3) PE52(S3) S1F0(S3) PE53(S3) S1F 0(S3) PE54(S3) S1F0(S3) PE55(S3) S1F0(S3) PE56(S3) S1F0(S3) PE57(S3) S1F0(S3) PE 61(S3) S1F0(S3) PE62(S3) S1F0(S3) PE63(S3) S1F0(S3) PE64(S3) S1F0(S3) PE65(S3) S 1F0(S3) PE66(S3) S1F0(S3) PE67(S3) S1F0(S3) PE71(S3) S1F0(S3) PE72(S3) S1F0(S3) PE73(S3) S1F0(S3) PE74(S3) S1F0(S3) PE75(S3) S1F0(S3
Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5
I haven't been able to reproduce the problem since this morning. Nothing has been changed on the vmhosts so I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment. When the issue reoccurs I'll try everything that has been suggested today. Thank you very much for your help everyone. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Edho Arief e...@myconan.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using amd64. I'll try i386 later today to see if the issue occurs again. Another person replied to me saying i386 works fine for him in ESXi 5. I'm also running 4.9 i386 in a VMware and it sure is fine: [edho@tomoka ~]$ uptime 7:33AM up 80 days, 8:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.23, 0.26, 0.27 [edho@tomoka ~]$ uname -a OpenBSD tomoka.myconan.net 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 i386 [edho@tomoka ~]$ dmesg | grep vm vmt0 at mainbus0 vmt0 at mainbus0 -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
