Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:03:43 +0100 From: Mats Lindberg <mats.w.lindberg@gmail.com> To: Pieter de Boer <pieter@thedarkside.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1 Message-ID: <AANLkTikGQ=3Cm1tre5V4y2EsuGBhuDfYKC0JrRYPMGQF@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D83210D.5070107@thedarkside.nl> References: <AANLkTi=23g1%2BKv%2B4Pmda3-75-r13GaRFu1_Mtofej3RJ@mail.gmail.com> <4D7DFC6F.80008@gmail.com> <AANLkTi=Gx=YZ%2BZr0q%2BFZ8mcbQyGhjZPSYm6de4ZVwSwx@mail.gmail.com> <4D7E0831.4060804@gmail.com> <AANLkTins89qcvAjd4_x=iZVjR3rMnGaEJUwuMpMAFKny@mail.gmail.com> <4D83210D.5070107@thedarkside.nl>
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No - I was not aware of this, I'll try it, thanks... /Mats 2011/3/18 Pieter de Boer <pieter@thedarkside.nl> > 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 <if> 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 > > > >
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