RE: lots of network interfaces

I decided to stress-test the netgraph(4) subsystem one day and was able to create 65530 interfaces before it produced an error, refusing to create another. At that point, the system was still usable, but... It took over an hour for ifconfig to list all the interfaces. Simply typing ifconfig with

RE: disadvantages of running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2 system

-Original Message- From: Damien Fleuriot [mailto:m...@my.gd] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:54 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: Steven Hartland; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Devin Teske; Ali Okan YÜKSEL Subject: Re: disadvantages of running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2 system On 17

kgzip(1) is broken

Hello, I have been sad of-late because kgzip(1) no longer produces a usable kernel. All versions of 9.x suffer this. And somewhere between 8.3-RELEASE-p1 and 8.3-RELEASE-p5 this recently broke in the 8.x series. I haven't tried the 7 series lately, but if whatever is making the rounds gets

RE: kgzip(1) is broken

-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Xin Li Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:20 PM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kgzip(1) is broken -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512

RE: kgzip(1) is broken

-Original Message- From: Ian Lepore [mailto:free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:05 PM To: dte...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kgzip(1) is broken On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 13:27 -0800, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, I

RE: kgzip(1) is broken

-Original Message- From: Ian Lepore [mailto:free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:43 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: dte...@freebsd.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: kgzip(1) is broken On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 16:10 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: