From: "H. Hartzer" <h@hartzer.sh>
Subject: Re: New port: net/monero
To: "Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>, <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:33:30 +0000

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