little confused - EDITOR=nano crontab -e is giving me an error from vim

zsh and bash

et09: is $VISUAL set?

ah - yes - thanks

Anyone seen a "too many open files" message while building net-mgmt/prometheus2 ?

weust: not specifically, but FreeBSD has a small default for open files

megaTherion: yeah, I know. in my poudriere.conf I have an entry for vscode to set it to 4096. Just did that for prometheus2 now as well

isn't 4096 still very small?

But it's fairly recent as it build fine before. Server has been offline for over a month due to the summer heat here (it's a home server)

4096 is enough for vscode. it's described somewhere too specifically for vscode. forgot where

One too many files open today?

Title: 242871 – editors/vscode: add warning for build Error: EMFILE: too many open files

🤷‍♂️

btw, I couldn't find it on portsfallout.com

Ha! That reminds me of Java when needed to bump up memory a bit

weust: maybe it's just outdated

build routines tend to change

perhaps. log shows lines like this a lot too: vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/managedfields/extract.go:24:2: cannot find package

which I assume is because of the too many open files.

I'm running a bulk build atm. When that finished I will try again to see is 4096 ie large enough.

memory isn't an issue. 128GB using 8 builds at the same time, so some packages can use HT

ports*

Default (as in I have not change it) of "kern.openfiles=196" does seem rather low

s/change/&d/

the default's regarding this are way too conservative for many modern things

on my box I've 1136 as default

Currently "fstat | awk '$2 != "fstat"' | wc -l" shows a count of 563

on my NAS/poudriere server it shows 1489

but it is building 8 ports right now.

on my box its 1900, regardless of kern.openfiles=1141

kern.openfiles: 345

things like sockets aren't really open files or?

I have no idea

well, max files 4096 seems to work for net-mgmt/prometheus2

weust: so what changed?

Commit processing on FreshPorts is paused until about 0300 UTC while a script to correct 'homepage' values is running.

I'm currently not running FreeBSD, but I am writing a tool and I think I might want to support FreeBSD with it. It specifically is a tool to send verbs to HDA codecs. That appears to be available at the kernel level, but I'm not sure if it's exposed in userland.

There is a kernel driver at `sys/dev/sound/pci/hda/hdac.c`, which exposes(?) the method `hdac_codec_command`, which would be a nice entry point. But it is a kernel driver.

Hi! We've got multiple FIB support, so I'm reading rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2865 and see, describes Framed-Route attribute to pass a route (or many) to a NAS, with metrics, but it does not define a way to specify distinct routing table numbers. Before I invent my own format to implement FIB support for net/mpd5 (PPPoE/PPtP/L2TP), I'd like to ask if anyone know if some other NAS/RADIUS clients implement multiple-routing-tables over RADIUS?

Title: RFC 2865: Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

RFC 2865 mentiones multiple "metric" integer values appended to dotten quad form of IPv4 address/mask and I could interpret second "metric" as FIB number, but...

dadv: good catch.

I've always used motherboards with Intel chipsets for FreeBSD, but I'm considering switching to AMD. How could I tell if FreeBSD would support this board? asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components…rds/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GAMING-X570-PLUS

Title: TUF GAMING X570-PLUS｜Motherboards｜ASUS USA

For example, I don't see the Realtek L8200A LAN listed on the 13.1 HW notes page.

chriswells0: I'm not seeing anything after doing what's probably the same web search you probably did, so I'd recommend asking on a mailing list or two.

Which list(s)?

chriswells0: I'd think one or more of: lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-net lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-current lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-hackers

Title: FreeBSD Mailing lists: subscription for freebsd-net

perhaps even in that order

Thank you.

megaTherion: I have no idea what changed

weust: I'd say you just hit the limit

I guess, yeah. But looking at the log files when it failed, it wasn't just one. There were a lot of the same message in it

chriswells0: if you opt for Prime X570 Pro instead you get an Intel 211 on-board NIC

Prime is Asus or Asrock?

weust: pretty sure mine says Asus

Title: PRIME X570-PRO - Tech Specs｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

ah right. I personally would avoid Asrock board. At least the cheaper one. very bad VRM cooling

high end asrock are nice

But the lower end is total garbage

my total garbage of an asrock B450 Pro4 has been working perfectly fine with FreeBSD for years, for what it's worth. with a ryzen 2700 though, those don't take a lot of power.

and I added an intel ethernet card to not use the built-in realtek one.

I don't know about B450, but if you look up Hardware Unboxed on youtube, there are several videos on VRM cooling. Main issue with bad cooling is that CPU speeds aren't properly held or even reached.

heh, I probably wouldn't even notice that tbh

:-)

I don't have anything "against" another motherboard manufacturer, but ASUS has been so good to me that I'll stick with it until I have a very good reason to switch.

depends on your needs of course, but in general all are fine. Except Asrock on lower end motherboards. but always check out reviews before buying

asus are good I have a few my self, but TYAN is always a competitor

had nothing but horror from ASRock over time

same with MSI

I've had MSI before, but a very long time ago. Have Gigabyte now and had some in the past. Asus was probably the P5B at some point. Abit BX6 Rev 2.0 was a overlocking king back in the late 90's

always had good luck with tyan workstation boards when i ran them

been several years since having one though, i assume their quality has been maintained

Never had Tyan. Prob

probably because they were workstation boards, not for extreme overlocking with freon gas and such :-)

well yea, but that crap is just silly

just put some flame stickers on your case, there its faster now

no no, RGB.

oh right

;-)

Remilia: The Prime motherboard is a bit more expensive and doesn't have WiFi/Bluetooth built-in. :( Everything works on it, though? LAN, sound, USB?

how can i set freebsd to boot from GRUB with UEFI (UEFI and Legacy Mode), unde only legacy (MBR) it boots ok, i know:

menuentry "FreeBSD" {

set root=(hd2,2)

chainloader +1

}

and MBR boots fine with chainloader

but with uefi i don't know how with GRUB

who knows how?

chriswells0: oh, it being more expensive is weird to me, over here TUF is always more pricey

if you need BT and WiFi I guess it is a poor choice

I never really needed that in a desktop system myself haha

I think when I tried FreeBSD on it I did not have issues with LAN and USB, but as I never install X and basically never use FreeBSD as a workstation OS myself (due to software I use for work)…

the sound chip is HDA compatible though so I think it should work with a generic driver?

I plug my desktop in to the LAN, but I run virtual machines on a separate VLAN over WiFi.

my VMs use wired VLAN tags haha

Bluetooth matters less, but I like to dream that it'll be an option to use a Bluetooth headset one day.

(Hyper-V lets you tell which VMs see which VLANs and how exactly)

(pretty sure you can do that with FreeBSD bridges too)

I'd be interested to know how. Then I could get a decent speed.

uh

add VLAN-tagged interfaces, then bridge them with VMs?

chriswells0: I mean you do something like vlans_igb1="2 50" and then ifconfig_igb1_2="inet 10.255.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0" or what have you

there, you have 802.11q

then bridge igb1.2 to your VM's epair

I found these:

Title: Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD - genneko

That's what you're talking about?

Argh, brutex left without an answer.

I'll whip up something on the wiki.

mason: grub isn't supported anyways?

megaTherion: Not by FreeBSD itself, but here's the page in case brutex comes back: wiki.freebsd.org/MasonLoringBliss/BootingFreeBSDfromUEFIGRUB

Title: MasonLoringBliss/BootingFreeBSDfromUEFIGRUB - FreeBSD Wiki

And... Just changed it to show how to find ESPs generally, rather than one one specific partition. =cough=

Im coming around to using a port mgmt tool to upgrade things...synth is great!

just realized that freebsd has a version of vim compiled with +clipboard and +xterm_clipboard options

bless you

What does +clipboard provide?