[+claudio, openbsd port maintainer] It has been a year since Julien's message above, given there hasn't been a fix for this issue I think we should more strongly warn people before they consider running Prometheus on OpenBSD.
Please would it be possible to put a note on the Prometheus port that Prometheus upstream cannot currently recommend Prometheus on OpenBSD, due to data corruption issues. On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 23:46, Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> wrote: > > Note: I am obviously also happy if someone from the community is willing > to do the work, or to provide any other kind of help to make this work > again. > > If the facts in the github issues are not correct and you run Prometheus > 2.19+ on OpenBSD without issue, please let us know as well. > > Thanks. > > On 15 Jun 15:38, Julien Pivotto wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > It seems that Prometheus for OpenBSD is no longer working since > > Prometheus 2.19. > > The sementics around memory mapping are very different from the other > > operating systems. The experts in the github issue have tracked this > > down to the lack of a unified buffer cache for mmap for OpenBSD. > > > > This seems to me that Prometheus simply does not work on that platform. > > > > I propose we remove OpenBSD from the Prometheus build and release list, and > > add CI > > for other OS', like freebsd etc. > > > > If the community wants to add support back, we would need benchmarks to > > see the impact on the other operating systems of the proposed solution. > > > > https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8799 > > https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8877 > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Julien Pivotto > > @roidelapluie > > -- > Julien Pivotto > @roidelapluie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20210615134617.GA683113%40oxygen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAP9KPhBusPprYQj6XqXxrrzq%2B_zmgRtt-6nhYUH7Rn%3DsSLMxgQ%40mail.gmail.com.
