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My first programming language was IBM BAL which I really liked, but I could never get the hang of PC assembly.

root@test:~ # service apache24 start

It would be great if we had a way to inspect this "interactivity score" on a per-thread or per-process basis. I have concerns that CPU-heavy interactive applications such as web browsers might not be covered.

I'm trying different php modules and have just got but currently have a problem starting apache with these pkgs cat << EOF | xargs pkg install -y apache24 mod_php85 php85-mysqli php85-extensions mysql84-server EOF

I thought I had installed everything needed when trying to login to 192.168.1.23/wordpress I get php85-mysqli is installed but doesn't show up under php_info.php There is a section labelled mysqlnd. Anyone know what is causing the problem?

This is close to what I have been working on here: https://research.thamessoftware.co.uk/glass/ https://gitlab.com/osen/openbsd_drmfb_gnuboy For much of my uses, I generally do often skip the display server. Once libdrm (a pretty ugly API) had...

No Rust? Disappoint

INTRO Ladies, gentlemen, and cyber friends, recently I've had to install FreeBSD on a PC that did not have a wireless NIC, and the router was so inconveniently placed that connecting directly via cable was out of the question. So, I decided to...

This is close to what I have been working on here: https://research.thamessoftware.co.uk/glass/ https://gitlab.com/osen/openbsd_drmfb_gnuboy For much of my uses, I generally do often skip the display server. Once libdrm (a pretty ugly API) had...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background — it just takes someone willing to show up and talk about why this project matters. Whether that’s...

Being at a point where you know what to look for and what it is about, I believe you can now start reading the source. ;) I't not so difficult: $ find /usr/src/sys -type f | xargs grep -l preempt_thresh /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c...

In order to make sense of these values, you need first to understand how timesharing was originally designed. There was only one core, and a HZ value (the HZ value is the timer interrupt frequency). When the kernel starts a process, that process...

I think I have found the answer to why 223 is the suggested value. 80 is PRI_MIN_KERN. Look here https://wiki.freebsd.org/AndriyGapon/AvgThreadPriorityRanges . What to choose ????? A short test seems like 171 is a good compromise on my system

Audiophiles shouldn't care about delay as long as it is constant. Musicians on the other hand legitimately care about latency when they play and need to hear themselves. But there is a minimum delay you can't avoid due to sound being so slow...

My tool sysutils/loaders-update tells you if your current loaders are up-to-date or not with those in /boot. For explanations concerning new loaders, you have the release notes and the gitup commits history. Nothing that will tell you...

INTRO Ladies, gentlemen, and cyber friends, recently I've had to install FreeBSD on a PC that did not have a wireless NIC, and the router was so inconveniently placed that connecting directly via cable was out of the question. So, I decided to...

You can use less to scroll through the list: pkg upgrade --dry-run | less

Interesting question. I think LLMs are ready to understand Intel's optimization guide and generate (some) better machine code than the LLVM IR to machine can do. Not because the LLVM developers are dummies but because the framework for doing that...

At 1 day this might become a new computer science theory if it doesn't already exist. The problem with AI generating assembly code that targets particular hardware is that the user has to describe what he wants in (I estimate) exactly the same...

git checkout/15.1 should surely fail! Do precisely. git checkout releng/15.1 "g" "i" "t" space "c" "h" "e" "c" "k" "o" "u" "t" space "r" "e" "l" "e" "n" "g" slash "1" "5" period "1"

Hence, I installed now a mini AMD VM running FreeBSD. For me very usable. I pay 1 EUR/Month for something much smaller (500MB Ram and 20 GB Disk, no possibility to run *BSD). The real problem is to keep it loaded with work. And to put a DNS...

Not really time slicing; preemption. As in "process A is running, process B needs to run, scheduler does some math, some checking and says Yes, B can start running so I'll stop A and start B" Timeslicing in general/simple terms is more of...

I'd likely have issue above 2ms :p Would prefer input highest-priority above anything on desktop: if that's slow, then every interaction while on a desktop is slow.

No need to guess. FreshPorts shows the dependencies: It does not install a server but apache isn't a requirement.

Presumably this only matters when there are competing workloads, for example a `make world` in the background and a desktop in the foreground. The code is not easy enough to read for me to instantly see how the "pri" value that this sysctl is...

No need to guess. FreshPorts shows the dependencies: It does not install a server but apache isn't a requirement.

I like low-level assembly :D

The problem is that nVidia and Intel are against direct operation of graphics hardware and opetating systems don't like to admit that they just don't have the information for legal application. These 2 should not be primary support target. We'll...

have you tried loading another profile to determine whether the email or feed works?

No need to guess. FreshPorts shows the dependencies: It does not install a server but apache isn't a requirement.

I'd try installing it and see what it presents (it might have PHP mysql extension as a dependency but it probably shouldn't require a mysql server by itself; not sure if wp pkg would be useful without webserver but which one might it present?) I...

Post the output of ls -l /usr/local/bin/lynis_cron.sh

I suppose I should show the entire e-mail I receive from my system. Here it is: Message 5: From root@KensOffice Wed Jul 15 03:00:00 2026 From: Cron Daemon <root@KensOffice> To: root Subject: Cron <root@KensOffice> root...

Well, the latest error message shown in the email I receive from the system is: /bin/sh: root: Permission denied Sigh.... :-( Ken Gordon

FYI, 14.3 is end-of-life. 14.4 is the only supported version from the 14 branch. "NAT" in VirtualBox is using a dhcp server. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/topics/networkingdetails.html#network_nat . If you stay with "NAT", configure in...

They're coming in thick and fast now... seems someone out there wants to keep X11 alive, thankfully. https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/14/frame-a-new-x11-server-implemented-directly-in-assembly/5270498 The guy seems to like writing...

I like low-level assembly :D

No Rust? Disappoint

So do you folks want more or less preemption?

A bloat-free graphics screen would be nice. No display server, just a program that draws pixels on GPU-level at the speed of the GPU in a standardized way and runs from the non-graphical CLI.

covacat are you still around? I want to put some steam behind this.

Hi, I recently thought to try a VPS from OVH in their Beauharnois datacenter. They had no stock when I checked a while back and I went with Hetzner instead. The exchange rate from EUR to CAD is brutal :( At the time of writing of this post, OVH...

Thanks for reply. What I'd really like to figure out is how to use ng_tcpmss to modify the MSS of passing SYN and/or SYN-ACK packets. On a simple interface (no jails). Does ng_tcpmss need ng_eiface?

I did wonder if anyone noticed the effect of it not being set before they noticed the error message. I've never really been sure about the benefit of this - it's easy to convince oneself that a tweak has produced a benefit.

Whilst that shows how to install wordpress, which is relatively straightforward and there are numerous guides, the one above does not actually install the pkg www/wordpress.

This came up when I searched for it. https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/21/wordpress-on-freebsd-with-bastillebsd-a-secure-alternative-to-linux-docker/

How did you get it? :) I tried to get it many times, but I get error, it seems the demand is very big, at least in Frankfurt. This is what I get:

I have just noticed that there is a www/wordpress pkg available on freshports. Is there any documentation on this packages and what else needs to be installed to get it working? I presume apache24 php+ mysql

Why do you have modified the url for fetching the base? Where, on the earth, have you read that? base_latest is one of the STABLE versions... Furthermore, you give a wrong path for getting the pkg key, hence this problem. Just put in...

It's /etc/resolv.conf (without the e), but yes, that's very likely. Your defaultrouter will get changed too. Set defaultrouter if you use static IP addresses, don't set it for DHCP. DHCP typically sets the IP address, subnet mask, gateway address...