On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:

> I have some experience in running and maintaining FreeBSD, but some issues
> puzzle me in NetBSD:
>
> - how to get the console to scroll? Activating Scroll-Lock "freezes" the
> screen (nothing is output), but PgUp, PgDown and arrow keys do nothing.
>
> - how to switch virtual consoles? (maybe I need to activate them first?)
>
> - Even when accessing via ssh (putty), i still have console issues
> (TERM=linux often does funny things, and with TERM=vt100 most of the keys
> and functions (color, although not in all applications) work, except the
> "function" keys (F1..F12).
>
> - I ran bonnie++ on a partition with soft-updates and got 730 files/sec
> create score. This is abysmally small compared to FreeBSD 4.9 (almost 17000
> files/sec). Is that normal? (is this related to FreeBSD's dirhash?) Some
> other scores are also funny: Almost 43MB/s *putc()* output, which is almost
> the same number as sequential *block* output (about 49MB/s, which is normal
> for the machine) while in FreeBSD I get 136 *KB/s* for it. Does NetBSD have
> some extra-ordinary putc() optimisation? Maybe some buffering?
>
>
> --
> Every sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology
>     - Arthur C Anticlarke
>
>

Hi,

I usally use TERM=screen for color output with a working charset,
especially the "drawing" characters.

Sorry I can't help with the other questions.

Florian