@stsp @nlnet #NetBSD should also apply for funds. :)

@gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

#php #netbsd

Alt...

drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

Have a great Friday everyone in the #BSD community! 😎 (The weekend is almost upon us!)

...and don't forget:
#RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115566280074527897

"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.

#RunBSD #illumos #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

Finally got around to writing a proper Wii boot loader for #NetBSD so I don't have to copy kernels to the FAT partition anymore.

The boot loader builds entirely from the NetBSD source tree using libsa + libkern and can access msdos/ffsv1/ffsv2 partitions on the SD card via MINI IPC.

TODO - find some way (without a keyboard) to be able to tell it to boot a backup kernel.

#NetBSD 🚩

Which of the usual suspects will have the first dmesg sent in from the new Steam cube computer machine thingie, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #FreeBSD?

Since, one Java application (OpenHAB) is used on my #NetBSD server I met with huge swap usage — always near 512 Mb of swap was used. This wasn't good, since I'm using SSD — I was afraid that my old SSD will wear out and die, but for now I don't have money to buy a new SSD disk

Tweaked Java initial and max heap sizes (-Xms, -Xmx) and some settings for GC, to call it more often in trade of OpenHAB responsiveness — obviously it didn't help. Then I tweaked NetBSD memory management to force system to use swap only if RAM is almost full — by this cool guide: https://imil.net/NetBSD/mirror/vm_tune.html

And it doesn't help too. Suddenly for me, but looks like these settings were applied to the kernel after reboot, not after call to sysctl.

So, for now I have a system with 800-900 Mb RAM in use and ZERO swap in use

#BSD #memoryManagement

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115551343732704834

This is a great post.
It's not "against" something - it just explains why Tim prefers to use the BSDs.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #IT

This Isn't a Battle

After reading a post describing the FreeBSD community as 'toxic', I share a different perspective. This isn't a battle. It's a reflection on coexistence, the original Open Source spirit, and the quiet richness of taking a different path.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/

#MyNotes #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #OpenSource

Kind of silly but I added support for the Wii's AES engine to #NetBSD today. The Wi-Fi stack can use it along with the cryptographic disk driver cgd(4).

A quick test of cgd(4) on a USB flash drive in AES-128-CBC mode shows 4.4 MB/s with the software implementation and 15 MB/s with hardware acceleration.

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2025/11/11/msg158907.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115509098143295810

The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #AsiaBSDCon

New #NetBSD https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/ release for those who celebrate :)

https://github.com/bsiegert/BulkTracker/releases/tag/v2025.11

Hey #NetBSD 🚩community! There's been discussion over the years about whether the NetBSD project should have its own unique mascot (separate from the general BSD Beastie).

I outlined a proposal for one back in 2021, including some concepts:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2021/01/21/msg000828.html

What's the general feeling today? #RunBSD #OpenSource #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

Lil guide about OpenHAB4 installation into the NetBSD sandbox.

https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/11/07/install-openhab4-to-netbsd.html

#NetBSD #OpenHAB #HomeAutomation

But VNC'ing into a small #NetBSD VM and launching X11 and Xeyes is really funny.

I missed Xeyes for some reason... 👀

#Stephen made a new video about #NetBSD :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RjuWSUnxug

Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs

My BSDCan 2025 presentation, PeerTube and YouTube links:

PeerTube: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/x4oPuHpCJK3qWFfdZtr7hd

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVp25-6Qao

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #ISolveProblems #Linux

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-145.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

Second time was easier than the first (plus using a faster machine helped); upgraded PostgreSQL from 14 to 16 on #NetBSD, for a #Zabbix server v7 on a Pi.
20 minutes to dump the database, install new PG version, re-import and re-start.

Alt...

Temperature chart, missing 20 minutes.