On 11/3/25 15:20, H. Hartzer wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Mon Nov 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM UTC, David Uhden Collado wrote:
>> There are some errors in Lucas Gabriel Vuotto's version of the
>> net/monero port.
>>
>> 1. It does not detect the GNU Readline library during compilation.
>> 2. It uses libtinfo for terminfo routines, which does not exist in
>> OpenBSD. These routines are included in libcurses.
>>
>> An error occurs when building the port with the command "make
>> port-lib-depends-check": it reports that ereadline is not reachable
>> through the dependencies and that curses is unnecessary. However, this
>> is incorrect because listing the dynamic dependencies of the binaries
>> with ldd(1) shows that they have been linked correctly.
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/libereadline.so → ereadline
>>
>> /usr/lib/libcurses.so → curses
>>
>> I have attached my version of the net/monero port to this email. You can
>> also find it in this GitHub repository:
>>
>> https://github.com/daviduhden/wip-openbsd-ports
> 
> Very cool! I am giving it a try right now. Good so far.
> 
> Have you had stability issues on 7.8 with it, or has it run fine?
> 
> When I upgraded from 7.7 to 7.8, I kept having kernel crashes while
> running Monero.
> 
> To help debug this, I've created a 7.7 and 7.8 VM, both with Monero
> running. The 7.8 one is your port, built on 7.8.
> 
> Now I have found a flag that appears to help with the stalling:
> 
> --db-sync-mode=safe:sync:1blocks
> 
> I think it may be slower, but the system doesn't seem to lock up.
> 
>>> The port will require a notice that you'll need 300GB+ on whatever
>>> partition this is mounted to. I guess 100GB+ might be okay with pruning
>>> enabled.
>>
>> The amount of space required will continue to grow as the blockchain
>> grows larger over time.
> 
> Well, yes. I understand this :).
> 
> -Henrich
> 

Something I'll add is about using multiple hard drives to spread out the 
input/output. I've found with backups that life is much better if the 
drives that store the backups are separate (/srv/backup with its own 
drive) from the OpenBSD system partitions. Maybe moving the monero LMDB 
to its own SSD drive would help prevent the system from stalling? You 
might have already tried it.