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

On 10 June 2010 06:19, Nick Rogers wrote: > 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 Hm, that's just a simple caching mechanism, right? If it matches the last entry, re-use it? What

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