[floatboth]

> many features that require toil to achieve on FreeBSD, such as suspend on lid close, working volume buttons, and decent battery life, work out of the box on OpenBSD

Suspend on lid close worked out of the box for me on FreeBSD, on a ThinkPad X240. (Well, almost out of the box — had to disable the TPM in the firmware setup, otherwise the TPM would prevent it from waking up.)

There's NO WAY battery life could be better on OpenBSD though. OpenBSD is not even tickless!!

I measured the power consumption of the SoC with Intel's pcm tools, it's ~1W when idling in GUI on FreeBSD. Does OpenBSD even have pcm.x? ;)

[dijit]

> There's NO WAY battery life could be better on OpenBSD though. OpenBSD is not even tickless!!

FWIW FreeBSD idled hot on my thinkpad x201 and x201s, where openbsd did not. I got more battery from a slim Linux than openBSD, but FreeBSD was by far the worst for battery life if you're comparing them.

[floatboth]

Odd. Did you load the GPU driver? Start powerd?

[dijit]

Yes. I was looking at power optimisations at the time and those were suggestions. The issue was an idle load of 1.0 (nothing was noticably taking cpu), and when I say idle I mean there was nothing being drawn on screen and the browser was closed.

[JdeBP]

... but Sendmail was furiously trying to redeliver a massive mail queue of daily security run output messages? (-:

There is more than just your WWW browser and X applications running on a FreeBSD system.

[dijit]

Yes, of course, but maybe that's part of the problem.

FWIW, sendmail delivery to local mailboxes shouldn't need to retry, since it'll just dump in roots spool folder.

[throwaway2048]

I trust in god alone, all others must bring benchmarks.