At Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:10:05 +0000 (UTC), RVP <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One NetBSD 11.0-RC1 slow man pages rendering in 
virtual consoles
>
> Well, I do that because the other way around (constty on; ttyE0 off) leads
> to
>
> 1. an inconsistency in the name of the 1st console which leads to issues of
>    this sort:
>
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2024/03/23/msg039239.html

Sudo is wrong, and I'm not sure that suggested patch fixes it.

I dunno why it is relying on the device ID there, but it in general is a
less secure solution than just using su(1).


> OTOH, I've found no issues with /dev/ttyE0 being the "console".

In general that's probably OK for something like a laptop or a desktop
with similarly limited operation.

However for a system that has the possibility of both a serial console
and a keyboard and monitor, /dev/constty is the best way to access the
console.


>    Change HZ to 1000 and NetBSD will be on par with FreeBSD and Linux, I 
> think.

I've used "options HZ=1024" (or 1000) on all my systems since 1.6 or
even before.

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