From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 10:05:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACC0106567C for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mats.w.lindberg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D000C8FC19 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so4087408fxm.13 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:05:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GWTFWtGcBJFz8VMpe3FWfGPbmq8Fc5KNbVH+k5t+Ze4=; b=q79lYy7LlepA/a3LIrCPxfdEeVWE7CFYuMTLSJIyCDXHqSiCfZKKI95e+G8ssMqDhf A+c9Jw/q5hEIMUXS7rb7D4ZrA0IBZlI4yg25KX4wi+x0dj2efT3qYD83XqN93zqB/ui8 wJAGqMQndBf9xfRPtDZ8JzqmyW1yA+bFcSBsU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=ZxbIY3NhcELHOZ31xIo6Bo11iSzqMbpJKdfSFtkdNJCbnefsj22dvHIhR7UFlxKmEc ovyu0tI+NGWl5qpP7tmoePMnb9mjVcoAurry3yQjOWFWSi4BSapKk/3/1YzMYhI6Il05 Erid7pt+i9w3ZHezUI3PFWkex1QV7mSBoWd9U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.14.22 with SMTP id e22mr1027702faa.64.1300442623898; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.100.16 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:03:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D83210D.5070107@thedarkside.nl> References: <4D7DFC6F.80008@gmail.com> <4D7E0831.4060804@gmail.com> <4D83210D.5070107@thedarkside.nl> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:03:43 +0100 Message-ID: From: Mats Lindberg To: Pieter de Boer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05:15 -0000 No - I was not aware of this, I'll try it, thanks... /Mats 2011/3/18 Pieter de Boer > On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > > > So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is > > actually connected to arp. > > > > My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp > > requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did > >> sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=2147483647 (max accepted > >> value) > > > Are you aware of ifconfig staticarp ? > > I can imagine that the kernel uses some resources for every > outstanding arp request, meaning that if it's continually sending arp > requests, it also will use a lot of such resources.. > > -- > Pieter > > > >