Re: arp(8) performance w/ many aliases assigned to an interface

FYI there is a bugfix/patch for this issue being discussed in freebsd-hackers: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org/msg157097.html ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-perfo

arp(8) performance w/ many aliases assigned to an interface

I have an 8.0-RELEASE system with 4000 "permanent" ARP entries due to having a network interface (em(4)) configured with 4000 aliases. The "arp -na" command takes what I consider to be an extremely long time to finish (up to 30s on an otherwise unloaded system). I am able to replicate this in a tes