still loosing connections

2014-10-26 Thread Stefan Wollny
Hi misc@! I run OpenBSD-{amd64,i386}-current for several years now on 3 machines, having reinstalled everything late this summer because s.th. related to either adsuck, ftp, cvs, pf or the netstack in general feels broken. I have complained before in the last weeks but unfortunatelly the usually

Re: mutt and gmail

2014-10-26 Thread frantisek holop
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff, 25 Oct 2014 22:21: FWIW I use mbsync (from mail/isync) to sync Gmail to local maildir, and have my mutt set up to work in maildir only. I set up cron to call mbsync on schedule, and I from then I totally forgot about the crappiness of Gmail's IMAP interface. thanks for

panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size

2014-10-26 Thread frantisek holop
memtest did not reveal errors. unfortunately i got another panic, during some routine file operations. (after the 2 previous panics, fsck required manual running, and even multiple runs, so maybe this one is choking on fsck's best efforts, i dont know.) savecore: reboot after panic:

Re: The Book of PF, 3rd ed: You own the first author signed copy and support OpenBSD!

2014-10-26 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:23:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael W. Lucas wrote: MY auction raised $1145. There is no way that BoPF3 can POSSIBLY raise more than that! Consider the gauntlet thrown. Nice one Michael! :-)

64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial applications. thanks.

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-26 20:02 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). Current hardware supports only 2^48... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Physical_address_space_details Best Martin

crypto softraid and keydisk on same harddrive

2014-10-26 Thread Patrik Lundin
Hello, I have a usecase for full disk encryption using softraid where the keydisk is placed on the same harddrive as the encrypted partition. This is not for protecting data on the drive in case it gets stolen, but rather to allow for a quick way of making the data unrecoverable (by destroying

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial

Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: bad size

2014-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:27 AM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: memtest did not reveal errors. unfortunately i got another panic, during some routine file operations. (after the 2 previous panics, fsck required manual running, and even multiple runs, so maybe this one is choking

Wireless PCIe (Host AP mode) recommendations

2014-10-26 Thread Gordon Turner
Hey List, I am planning a new router / firewall / Wifi AP based on the Supermicro SYS-5015A-EHF-D525 (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101364) and was hoping that I could get some feedback on PCIe wifi cards. After going over the wireless FAQ and then doing some

Re: Wireless PCIe (Host AP mode) recommendations

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-26 22:31 GMT+01:00 Gordon Turner tur...@ftn.net: Rosewill RNX-G300LX (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166021) - Up to 54Mbps - Chipset RaLink RT2561/RT61 - Supported by ral http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ral.4?query=ralsec=4

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial

Re: unknown ethernet: intel dual-port gig copper

2014-10-26 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Jim Rowan [j...@computing.com] wrote: That's really odd... I cut/paste that line directly from the serial console.. I don't know how it got to be showing 0x8096 instead of 0x8086. Sorry for the false alarm! (I'll still have to track down what's wrong with flashrd... as I want to use it.)

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: ... thanks for the details, but, since i am nowhere close to being a systems programmer, would like to know if there's any chance such support might be added in, in the near future? You're asking whether in the near

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-27 1:56 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware? 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020.

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-27 3:37 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: From owner-misc+m143...@openbsd.org Sun Oct 26 22:22:57 2014 Fix your mail client, please. 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020. it is for a lot of records (data-sets) to held in memory instead of

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: 2014-10-27 1:56 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware? 256TB (2^48) should be good enough

apology about my email screw-up ...

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
i am using mailx under openbsd, and instead of using the said combination of tilde + p, i used tilde + m while attempting to include original messages in my replies. i apologize for the screw-up.

openbsd : mailx users : how-to include previous mail text (only)?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hello, i have been trying to fix the problem of mailx including the entire header-set when issuing a tilde + m in a reply to include only the previous emails body text (content). one of the docs suggested using tilde + p, but dang, it didn't work for me during tests executed just now. if anyone