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

2010-06-17 Thread Nick Rogers
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Max Laier wrote: > Hello Nick, > > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 23:56:27 Nick Rogers wrote: > > Can this change make it into 8.1-RELEASE? > > just MFCed it to stable/8. It will, however, not make it to 8.1-Release. > As > it is not a

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

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Rogers
09 June 2010 20:17:43 Nick Rogers wrote: > > > Is there something that can be done to speedup the call to > > > if_indextoname(), or would it be worthwhile for me to submit a patch > that > > > adds the ability to skip the interface lookup as an arp(8) option? > >

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

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Rogers
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