Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120

― for FreeBSD on slow storage.

Pictured: a 2828-step forced reinstallation of 1534 packages – 568 FreeBSD-base, 966 FreeBSD-ports – with root-on-ZFS, 8 G swap, and less than 1 GB memory.

FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE on AMD64 with KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, and a few other things from the ports collection.

ZFS is not tuned in any way.

zfs --version
zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
zfs-kmod-2.4.0-zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-September/001466.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4e12afdc-7bcf-4a25-94b3-fe1562469ed9>

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap
Graham Perrin
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120

― for FreeBSD on slow storage.

Pictured: a 2828-step forced reinstallation of 1534 packages – 568 FreeBSD-base, 966 FreeBSD-ports – with root-on-ZFS, 8 G swap, and less than 1 GB memory.

FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE on AMD64 with KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, and a few other things from the ports collection.

ZFS is not tuned in any way.

zfs --version
zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
zfs-kmod-2.4.0-zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2025-September/001466.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4e12afdc-7bcf-4a25-94b3-fe1562469ed9>

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #memory #swap
Karl
@dbdemon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

Has your OS ever refused to install the MariaDB client package or the MySQL client package due to a conflict with the other?

It feels like it should be possible to have both, but unfortunately I have yet to see a solution for this.

For a subset of these cases, all that you want is just to have the client tools such as the mariadb/ mysql CLI and the mariadb-dumper/ mysqldumper backup programs co-existing on the same OS. (I.e. you don't care about the static/dynamic libmariadbclient/libmysqlclient libs etc).

So, I decided to write up my solutions for this:
https://dbdemon.com/installing_mariadb_and_mysql_clients_on_same_unix_host/

#mariadb #mysql #pkg #rpm #packaging
Karl
@dbdemon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

Has your OS ever refused to install the MariaDB client package or the MySQL client package due to a conflict with the other?

It feels like it should be possible to have both, but unfortunately I have yet to see a solution for this.

For a subset of these cases, all that you want is just to have the client tools such as the mariadb/ mysql CLI and the mariadb-dumper/ mysqldumper backup programs co-existing on the same OS. (I.e. you don't care about the static/dynamic libmariadbclient/libmysqlclient libs etc).

So, I decided to write up my solutions for this:
https://dbdemon.com/installing_mariadb_and_mysql_clients_on_same_unix_host/

#mariadb #mysql #pkg #rpm #packaging
vermaden
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗽𝗸𝗴𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [FreeBSD PKGBASE pkgbasify(8) Tool] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/freebsd-pkgbase-pkgbasify-tool/

#verblog #convert #desktop #freebsd #laptop #pkg #pkgbasify #server #update #upgrade
vermaden
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗽𝗸𝗴𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [FreeBSD PKGBASE pkgbasify(8) Tool] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/freebsd-pkgbase-pkgbasify-tool/

#verblog #convert #desktop #freebsd #laptop #pkg #pkgbasify #server #update #upgrade
vermaden
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗸𝗴(𝟴) 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 [UPDATE 1 - Local pkg(8) Repository from Poudriere Build] to the 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 [Simple FreeBSD Poudriere Harvester Guide] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/simple-freebsd-poudriere-harvester-guide/#local-repository

#freebsd #packages #ports #repo #repository #local #pkg