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" wit

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 > > >

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: > >

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

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: SH

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 MFC'