plett: The first thing I noticed about it is that just setting "console=ttyS0" in the grub boot loader is enough for it to do everything right and start a getty on that tty, which saved me having to do it
mercutio: plett: does "systemd-analyze blame" work ?
it doesn't in ubuntu, as ubuntu has only started shifting to it slowly.
that's pretty cool about the console thing
(i have ubuntu vivid on some systems, the in development ubuntu)
plett: I had no idea that command even existed, I'll find out :)
mercutio: Yes, it appears to work. The two slowest things on my system are;
2.252s networking.service
1.094s exim4.service
mercutio: coo.
cool even
yeah i like that
plett: But speeding up boot times has never been that important to me, I hardly ever find myself needing to wait while watching a machine boot
mercutio: it's good when something takes a really long time but yeah it doesn't usually matter for low times.
i wish servers wouldn't boot through their bios so slow
oh there's a way to show how much is bios and user space etc
oh just remove blame
Startup finished in 2.173s (firmware) + 5.558s (loader) + 1.947s (kernel) + 12.413s (userspace) = 22.092s
Startup finished in 3.435s (firmware) + 5.339s (loader) + 2.986s (kernel) + 11.376s (userspace) = 23.138s
first is hard-disk system, second is ssd system
the hard-disk system is winning hah
plett: Startup finished in 1.449s (kernel) + 7.186s (userspace) = 8.635s
mercutio: my network starts slow for some reaosn
plett: DHCP? That's the usual reason
mercutio: i wonder why it doesn't show your bios.
no dhcp
infiniband + ethernet
it waits for link state.
but it's not slow enough to bug me.
i use static ip's
plett: Mine is a KVM guest, maybe it needs some hardware counter to measure bios and loader times which mine doesn't have
Or maybe Debian haven't built that yet :)
mercutio: oh this is hardware
plett: I've got a couple of old Asus Eee netbooks, I was going to try Debian Jessie on one of those too
mercutio: i haven't got any arch linux vm's atm
mike-burns: Jessie has systemd now. Just a headsup.
Oh that's how this conversation started.
up_the_irons: ugh, systemd
mike-burns: It's a good excuse to move more things to BSD.
Though, of course, the Ubuntu base underneath all of us has been solid.
up_the_irons: yeah
m0unds: huh, systemd-analyze is handy
mike-burns: It's just going to say the networking script is the slowest, every time.
m0unds: mine's showing POS networkmanager by 150-200ms
brycec: Anybody else seeing some poor ipv6 HE-Level3 connectivity? Was trying to download updates and every mirror my system tried was capping at 400KB/s or so. (and since it tries ipv6 first...)
(I haven't done any sort of thorough investigation yet, just a couple of mtr's.)
Seems like it may just be me. From another location's HE tunnel, same POP, 99% identical route, it's fine. There's one L3 host in the path that differs, but I don't have a 3rd HE tunnel to rule that out.
(If anyone cares, mtr http://sprunge.us/TTPR)
mercutio: brycec: that's tunnelling?
it's probably just the tunnel
brycec: How so?
mercutio: like he.net tunnel?
brycec: Yes
mercutio: from level 3
the tunnel server may be getting abused or something
brycec: Except I have two tunnels on that same POP (tunnel server)
mercutio: maybe load balanced
brycec: They're not
mercutio: hmm
that mtr doesn't show loss
but only 10 pings
brycec: That mtr was just a -r (report)
mercutio: --report-cycles=500 ?
will do 500 pings
brycec: Doubtful that it would provide anything useful. The issue is persistent, I should see constant packet loss, no need for a wide window.
mercutio: even 0.5% packet loss can show as 400k/sec download speeds.
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mercutio: appareltny openbsd has some bug with virtio devices in 5.5 and 5.6
-: mercutio hasn't hit any issues
brycec: (except with spelling ;P)
mercutio: heh
it's more the typing :)
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mercutio: up_the_irons: at least openbsd 5.6 has wrong timestamps on mirrors.arpnetworks.com
content looks to be the same, it's just confusing.
says 7th of august when it came out 1st november
BryceBot: That's what she said!!
mercutio: oh wow ftp5 says the same thing
maybe it's openbsd's fault :)
other servers seem to update the parent directory time at least.
brycec: Twist: ftp5 mirrors from ARP! (j/k)
mercutio: heh
they really shoudl touch the dates
even if they press cd's from older files
http://www.rhaalovely.net/up2date.html
this is kind of cool
BryceBot: That's what she said!!
brycec: lol @ the timezones
mercutio: the timezone thing is annoying
-: brycec blames the Dutch
mercutio: i've hit really really outdated mirrors before
brycec: @openbsd amd64
BryceBot: amd64 -> snapshots: Wed Dec 10 2014 11:59:55 GMT-0800 (PST), packages: Sat Dec 06 2014 04:43:44 GMT-0800 (PST)
brycec: ^ Pulls from ftp.openbsd.org
mercutio: like a year plus :)
brycec: (well, periodically polls. The pull is not "live")
mercutio: i'm using snapshot on arp
i just updated it
brycec: BryceBot announces new OpenBSD snapshots for another IRC channel.
mercutio: but i was also updating another box to 5.6
it seems faster
i think ssh or tcp or something must have changed
cos it's like a slow old server, adn it seems faster than faster servers
i think it's openssh
brycec: Perhaps it's defaulting to faster ciphers
mkb: mercutio, I've had my networking fail and say buffer full or something like that whenever I try to write out on a socket
I guess that's not a hang like the errata says though
mercutio: brycec: yeh i think so, it's faster with ssh than dropbear to connect now
mkb: sounds nasty.
BryceBot: That's what she said!!
mercutio: at least they informed about it
openbsd really needs binary updates.
err would be good with
they're classing themselves as a research OS now
brycec: mtier.org for binary updates
Specifically http://www.mtier.org/solutions/apps/openup/
mercutio: i did not know about that
brycec: And now you do, hooray!
mercutio: thanks brycec
brycec: np
mercutio: was it on undeadly?
brycec: I have no idea
mercutio: i read undeadly a bit and occassionally check out the mailing list.
mailing list has so much volume though
mkb: mtier the company has definitely been featured
brycec: I know about it from fellow OpenBSD sysadmins and developers
mercutio: ahh
it doesn't like me having http_proxy set
https_proxy isn't set
mkb: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633
mercutio: oh that was ages ago hah
undeadly's search is broken it seems
you used google?
mkb: yes
mercutio: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130509120042
it was mentioned more recently
mkb: that's them using it as a desktop (complete with screenshots)
mercutio: i used openbsd on desktop for a while
it worked pertty well
it was a while ago when video drivers were more open source friendly
mkb: I still do
we have KMS now, at least if it's not nvidia
mercutio: i haven't tried openbsd on desktop in a while
maybe i should
linux's open source radeon support is really bugging me.
i can't expect openbsd to be any better, but intel onboard was much better :)
mkb: firefox is slow
I don't know if that's OpenBSD, my computer, or Firefox...
mercutio: i've never seen firefox be particularly fast.
i've seen it scrolling at various speeds, but seems to have random pauses
i was using opera on openbsd
the freebsd version
i don't think that even exists anymore
mkb: Iwant Firefox because I'm able to give it all the right settings w.r.t. cookies and such.
mercutio: ahh i've never worried about that
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m0unds: mercutio: new opera is just chromium + opera features now
mercutio: i think they dropped freebsd though?
m0unds: probably
mercutio: and it's still closed source isn't it?
m0unds: yep, that doesn't bother me in the slightest
i liked it years ago when they were the first to do a lot of stuff, ahead of other browsers
lots of cool functionality
mercutio: yeah
i liked it except it kept crashing a lot
but it would show the pages before the crash when you resarted it
so i kind of just put up with it :)
BryceBot: That's what she said!!
DaCa: mkb, m0unds: have you tried xombrero?
mkb: I have
what I like is Firefox's profiles
I have one that I normally use that has cookies, javascript, etc. off
and another that I use if I need to that has it all on, but has remove on close set to true
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mnathani: where does one generally store ISO images for use with xen VMs?
I think I found: /var/lib/libvirt/images
mercutio: i would use /iso
or /xeniso
to my mind it's easier just having top level paths
mnathani: I get the following error: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a0f1e4e78dab4ac64d65
BryceBot: Gist: "https://gist.github.com/a0f1e4e78dab4ac64d65"
mnathani: my first time creating a Xen VM
mercutio: eww libvirt
mnathani: using virt-manager remotely from a CentOs 7 VM
host is Ubuntu
mercutio: yeah i just xl
it sounds like a key issue
try sshing in with the key and adding it to the file first?
maybe it's prompting or osmething
mnathani: would it make sense to install a gui on the host and create the VM locally?
mercutio: xl isn't that hard
and doesn't require gui
mnathani: looking into that now
mercutio: libvirt i find harder to read
BryceBot: That's what she said!!
mnathani: BryceBot: no
BryceBot: Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'libvirt i find harder to read'
mercutio: but can work with kvm and xen
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/xen-unstable-xl-add-some-example-configuration-files-td4956691.html
mnathani: how do you view the actualdisplay?
mercutio: i was finding it hard to find examples
i just use normal console
you can type xl console and it does a serial type console
like xl console virtualmachinename
mnathani: what if the guest has a gui?
mercutio: you can esacpe it with ctrl-]
oh gui?
i only do unix :)
on virtual machines.
mnathani: like a windows VM for example
mercutio: you can set it up with vnc
you do vnc=1
and you can tell it a port number
you can also do sdl=1 for local stuff
there'll be something for that new fancy one too, but generally speaking i've just used vnc then used remote desktop once it's there
you can then either run vncviewer with remote X forwarding, or tunnel a port via ssh
or listen on a private network
mnathani: this seems a bit complex for me
mercutio: what part?
mnathani: I like click - click gui configs
mercutio: windows? :)
mnathani: like virt-manager
and vmware esxi
mercutio: virtualbox is good for desktop usage like that
ok well your virt-manager thing is probably about the ssh key thing
you can probably ssh forward X virt-manager from a remote server and run it locally
or you can figure out why ssh is showing that stuff and fix it
so ssh'ing in manually should let you do the accept on the key
mnathani: does virt-manager have to be installed on the host even though I am using it remotely over ssh
I am actually running virt-manager on has it installed and is connecting to the host via ssh
mercutio: yeah i know
that's why i said you have to ssh in manually
it's showing a ssh generic thing
which suggests you haven't accepted the remote key
as the user virt-manager ssh's in as
so it's added to host keys or whatever
mnathani: ssh did not prompt to accept a key
not sure what user the virt-manager is using the ssh
should just be root
mercutio: just see what ps says?
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