Dedicated server share: Dual E5-2690v4, 128 GB, 2 x 960 GB SSD, 10G, Ashburn, VA USA NetBSD-current!

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What's new?

No one here expressed interest in sharing this fine server when it was doing a great job running self-compiled FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT.

Now, NetBSD-current has been installed! :star:

To me, NetBSD-current seems really peaceful! In many ways!

NetBSD seems still very much the same, but steadily improved, from thirty-ish years ago when I first became an occasional NetBSD user. For quite a while, back in the old days, I ran NetBSD-current on IBM z50 laptops as well as on my x86 desktop.

Why NetBSD-current instead of a stable release?

Over the years, NetBSD-current seems stable and dependable. I have compiled NetBSD-current thousands of times. NetBSD-current just seems to work reliably.

I do remember once, my modem stopped working. I emailed the developer who had a recent commit. and got a fix in about twenty minutes. That fast reply was very helpful!

The few NetBSD developers I have met do seem especially interested in NetBSD-current. So, if I want to ask a question, the NetBSD-current context might help my question pique developer interest.

Of course, I'm certainly not a NetBSD expert. I'm more of a clueless™ user. So I do have many questions to ask!

Besides being peaceful, versatile, and well supported, NetBSD also is lots of fun!

I think I might stay with NetBSD for a while, and also stay with this nice QuickPacket server,

If you want to share NetBSD and this nice server with me, please feel free to post here!

Best wishes!

Tom

Specifications

2 x E5-2690v4 (28 cores / 56 threads)
128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
2 x 960 GB SSD
1 x IPv4, more available
1 x IPv6/64 and 1 x IPv6/48 HE Tunnelbroker.net
250TB at 10G
NetBSD-current
Ashburn, VA USA

Pricing

The server is rented from QuickPacket for $85/month.

It would be great if server neighbors contributed something toward the monthly rental.

How to Get Shell Access

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What do you want to run on our server?
How much server resources might you use?
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Free and open source software only.
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Not for commercial use.
No service level agreement.

Warnings!

Ephemeral. Could disappear at any moment!
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More Information

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qp# sh tour
Thu Aug 20 01:46:47 UTC 2026

 1:46AM  up  1:34, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

kern.version = NetBSD 11.99.7 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug 19 09:28:39 UTC 2026
        [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC

[     1.000004] cpu55: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz, id 0x406f1

load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00;               up 0+01:35:00        01:46:48
23 processes: 22 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Memory: 299M Act, 19M Wired, 17M Exec, 271M File, 122G Free
Swap: 128G Total, 128G Free / Pools: 632M Used / Network: 

Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/wd1a      754G   2.2G   715G   1% /

        media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T full-duplex
qp# 

Anyone want to try guessing the commands in "tour"? :)

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Provider
    edited September 4

    OS update, now 11.99.8, up from 11.99.7.

    Used sysinst for the update instead of compiling myself. NetBSD's Summary of daily snapshot builds is here.

    I installed the "everything" this time, including man pages and the X Window System.

    I had the compiler set installed originally, intending to compile everything and update that way, but I got distracted looking at and installing the ConCatenated Disk RAID ("ccd" or "CCD"). So, right now there are independently bootable NetBSD oprating systems on each of the two disks. The CCD Data partition also uses both disks. Although it's presently mounted only on disk 0's NetBSD, it could be made available on both disk0 and disk1.

    NetBSD 11.99.8 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Sep  4 13:04:40 UTC 2026
    
    Welcome to NetBSD!
    
    This is a development snapshot of NetBSD for testing -- user beware!
    
    Bug reports: https://www.NetBSD.org/support/send-pr.html
    Donations to the NetBSD Foundation: https://www.NetBSD.org/donations/
    qp$ which startx
    /usr/X11R7/bin/startx
    qp$ df -h .
    Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail %Cap Mounted on
    /dev/wd0a       39G   2.3G    35G   7% /
    qp$ df -h /data
    Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail %Cap Mounted on
    /dev/ccd0a     1.6T   9.8G   1.6T   1% /data
    qp$ 
    
    qp# fdisk wd0
    Disk: /dev/rwd0
    NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
    cylinders: 1860501, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
    total sectors: 1875385008, bytes/sector: 512
    
    BIOS disk geometry:
    cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
    total sectors: 1875385008
    
    Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63
    
    Partition table:
    0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
        start 2048, size 1875382960 (915714 MB, Cyls 0/32/33-116737/80/63), Active
    1: <UNUSED>
    2: <UNUSED>
    3: <UNUSED>
    Bootselector enabled, timeout 10 seconds.
    First active partition: 0
    Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000)
    qp# 
    
    qp# disklabel wd0
    # /dev/rwd0:
    type: unknown
    disk: wd
    label: fictious
    flags:
    bytes/sector: 512
    sectors/track: 63
    tracks/cylinder: 16
    sectors/cylinder: 1008
    cylinders: 1860501
    total sectors: 1875385008
    rpm: 3600
    interleave: 1
    trackskew: 0
    cylinderskew: 0
    headswitch: 0           # microseconds
    track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
    drivedata: 0 
    
    5 partitions:
    #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
     a:   83886080      2048     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      2*-  83222*)
     c: 1875382960      2048     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      2*- 1860500)
     d: 1875385008         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 1860500)
     e: 1791494832  83888128        ccd                     # (Cyl.  83222*- 1860498*)
    qp# 
    
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