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Can It also use vim plugin? That's amazing.

The interesting part for vnodes is at the middle, a bit to the right. There are still free vnode data structures left, so there is no impact on cache performance from the vnode number. That is limited by your free memory. And yes, inactive memory...

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I have iFi xdsd that works with FreeBSD.

Oh, im in the club since 2022 lol ... i think its me who should welcome you to the club ha ha :)

Yep - I got mine in 2025 - up till then I was happy with W520 :) ... and I still keep many X220 or W520 or T520 (with 4C/8T CPU) machines :] There was time when original T25 was available in my city for $1100 - in NEW condition - back then (in...

Have you tried to use beadm(8) for this?

Yeah, the crap that the browser generates I am also quite happy to blow away on each reboot. I would probably opt for @reboot cron task though rather than storing in ram via tmpfs.

Welcome to the club :)

Why wouldn't that work? I can't think of a reason.

"Don't clog up threads" doesn't need a formal rule. It is common curtesy.

Yes, this is up to date and correct. Also see the daemon book.

There are two problems: The LLM generated answers are too long and block reading the thread for others You should only post such output after you reviewed it for correctness. While doing that you can also shorten it to address the previous point

Hello, I'm looking for a compact graphical view of the internal layers of FreeBSD. Searching over the net doesn't help me much ... I've this one below with stat tools, do you think it's relevant / right? This is related to a specific version or...

Hello :D So I wanted to share something I've been working on called PaxOS, a FreeBSD-based distro that attempts to run BSD, Linux and Windows. I created PaxOS out of curiosity after trying "ReactOS" and I thought: "I wonder if there is a distro...

It is now at 1.5.2,1.

As long as you stay above the number absolutely needed (plus delta ofc) it will limit the code cache. FreeBSD caches on a per-file base, that is what shows up as "inactive" memory. Try having top running and check if the user memory gets...

A quick look at the source indicates that this is a vnode cache. So setting it low should only make your system slower. That explains why applications don't throw errors for you.

Ah, so rather than exposing the core linux os base that makes up Android and provide a real native terminal, they wrap it in a virtualization framework to further restrict the device owners capabilities and throttle performance, while undoubtedly...

Yep. The Nodejs "ecosystem" is having a bad week: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/unc6426-exploits-nx-npm-supply-chain.html https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72.html

I tend to feel a 100GB model isn't a cache thing. It should be handled as proper data and stored somewhere less volatile. I do want /var/cache and ~/.cache to be wiped each reboot to avoid clutter building up. Though admittedly, tmpfs and...

So what actually happens when you lower it and run the disk intensive commands? Do the commands bail out with error messages or not?

That seems to be what I find as well. I do it in an alacritty terminal and just close that terminal afterwards. For my particular workflow that seems the easiest. EDIT: Actually not exactly. In that same terminal, I can just type exit and I'm...

My personal advice about getting familiar with FreeBSD is to simply install it somewhere, play with it and get used to it. A couple of USB sticks or a spare disk in a USB enclosure can be very handy as long as you can boot your computer from USB...

Would this work? https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/keyd/

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So, did feyrer.de get slashdotted, or? (the site is not reachable now)

Show detailed problems. I think this is too vague. What goes wrong and what does that look like? Good thing is to run things from any terminal to see better what goes wrong. Only a crash can be anything. Is it looking for a file?

Understood. I don't have any system which uses MBR, only GPT. On FreeBSD the "p" indicates a GPT partition scheme, "s" (for "slice") a MBR: GPT: % gpart show -p => 40 500118112 nda0 GPT (238G) ... 4605952 209715200 nda0p3...

Seems not. I asked here but no reply: - https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-March/006002.html

After you have resolved this issue, those "p" in nvme0n1pX indicate a GPT partition scheme, which should be specified with "gpt" (instead of "msdos") in the Grub menu configuration, e.g. "gpt1". See GRUB Manual, 13.1 How to specify devices ...

https://tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/2dsh.pdf This link is unreachable for me (and a bad cert too)

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Thank you. It refreshed my memory and I remember when I deleted sytem file on Saturday and I didn't made a system flopy disk, ha ha.

You lean by doing.

Great stuff, I will try it! How long have you been making it?

I've wanted a vi/Vim-like binary editor that I could use on FreeBSD. With existing tools, hexdump -C only lets you view files, and vim -b isn't particularly well-suited for heavy editing. Using :%!xxd in vim allows you to edit in hexadecimal, but...

There is a problem with your sd card which is not at full speed: mmc0: Card at relative address 1 failed to set high speed timing mmcsd0: 16GB <SDHC 00000 1.0 SN 00000843 MFG 10/2017 by 158 BE> at mmc0 0.4MHz/4bit/65535-block I have no...

Phishfry thank you for pointing me at this thread (how do I attach it nicely with preview like you did?) freebsd-15-doesnt-recognize-intel-wireless-ac-8260-card.100597 In there, there is a comment by paul_j spotting this bug. In /boot/firmware...

Please show us the Grub2 FreeBSD menu entry and the partition table FreeBSD is located on. From a FreeBSD installer media: gpart show -p; or Linux: lsblk -f.

My personal advice about getting familiar with FreeBSD is to simply install it somewhere, play with it and get used to it. A couple of USB sticks or a spare disk in a USB enclosure can be very handy as long as you can boot your computer from USB...

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https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-config

If it's at all useful, I did an upgrade the other day, (I have packages set to latest), and am having no trouble with Nvidia (580.142) at present.

You need to configure X, and that includes installing the right driver for the video hardware. When you build a house, do you start by building the roof or the foundation?

Configure X first, then enable SDDM. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/

Hello :D So I wanted to share something I've been working on called PaxOS, a FreeBSD-based distro that attempts to run BSD, Linux and Windows. I created PaxOS out of curiosity after trying "ReactOS" and I thought: "I wonder if there is a distro...

Thank you for your responses. Well, then that device is completely useless now. This is also generally speaking for all smartphones and other tablets after a while, when the version of Android cannot even be upgraded to be able to install certain...

No we do not have support for any MediaTek Arm CPU that I know of. An Android target is even harder to convert than Linux. Usually the bootloader is in SPI Flash and blanking it can mean shorting out the SPI bus to ignore the SPI Flash device on...

The support is for the software to connect/sync to/from the device. Not what you can run on the device itself.