Re: NetBSD on Linode kvm problems

[Michael Parson <mparson%bl.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, atomicules wrote:

> Also, forgot to send this to the list earlier:
>
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> Hi Michael,
>
> just to say that I've seen the same:
>
> https://twitter.com/atomicules/status/955750901381259264 
> https://twitter.com/atomicules/status/956466949168476160
>
> I tried para-virtualised and it didn't help and also ran into a nasty bug.

I don't remember if I tried booting/installing PV, I just know that I
was running into problems and when I found the page where I could change
that, I changed it and everything else that was aimed at 'helping' Linux
installs.

> I've gone as far as disabling CGD now because a) I wondered if the overhead 
> of encryption wasn't helping b) I can just hit reboot now when the clock 
> drifts and not have to worry about typing in my password (I'd long grown fed 
> up of the inconvenience of encrypted disks in the cloud)
>
> The next thing I was going to try was a fresh install because I also switched 
> from Xen to KVM "in place".
>
> I've also noticed a similar issue to you:
>
> On a fresh boot, mutt will switch between my mailboxes quickly. After a few 
> hours/days of running it'll start taking longer and longer; This is mutt 
> straight into a local maildir since my Linode NetBSD is also my mail host. So 
> weird.

Yeah, I normally read mail over imap, even when using alpine on the
local host, it lets me have multiple instances running w/o locking
problems.  I tried swapping over to reading the files directly, but that
didn't help.  Mail was just the first place I noticed having problems,
then I noticed that the time in my prompt and screen status line was
off.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ