On Tue, 2025-12-16 at 20:33 +0000, H. Hartzer wrote:
> On Tue Nov 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM UTC, Robert B. Carleton wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I think you are right about storing backups on separate drives.
> 
> I haven't tried its own SSD, but even with NVMe, on an otherwise
> unloaded system, Monero gets to a point where it bogs the system to a
> nearly unresponsive state.
> 
> Sadly, despite considerable testing, I've not found a reliable way to
> run a Monero daemon on OpenBSD. I can get the node synced, but even
> synced it eventually gets so unresponsive that it's not really
> usable.
> 
> I think my next test will be Debian + Monero under VMM, sadly.
> 
> I've tried both of the fleshed out ports that I've seen, on both 7.7
> and
> 7.8, with various db-sync options.
> 
> Maybe someone else has had more luck than I have?
> 
> -Henrich

I'm actually running monero on Debian Linux (trixie), but it's still on
an external SSD. This had more to do with the storage requirements and
the existing hardware that I had. An SSD was bought for the purpose. I
chose XFS rather than ext4 based on anecdotal reporting about XFS
performance with large files. Sorry, I didn't benchmark...

I didn't try monero on the Debian system disk. You might want to give
an external SSD a go before moving to Linux. With some small
exceptions, I prefer OpenBSD to Debian.