Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Mats Lindberg
2011/3/18 Mark Tinguely > On 3/18/2011 10:11 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > > > > 2011/3/18 Mark Tinguely > >> On 3/18/2011 3:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: >> >>> So - after a while I've made some observations. >>> My problem is actually connected to arp. >>> >>> My config is very static so basically

Fwd: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Mats Lindberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mats Lindberg Date: 2011/3/18 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1 To: Mark Tinguely 2011/3/18 Mark Tinguely > On 3/18/2011 3:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > >> So - after a while I've made some observations. >> My problem is ac

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Tinguely
On 3/18/2011 3:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is actually connected to arp. My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did > sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=2147483647 (ma

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Mats Lindberg
No - I was not aware of this, I'll try it, thanks... /Mats 2011/3/18 Pieter de Boer > On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > > > So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is > > actually connected to arp. > > > > My config is very static so basically I want to turn off

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Pieter de Boer
On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is > actually connected to arp. > > My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp > requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did >> sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=214

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-18 Thread Mats Lindberg
So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is actually connected to arp. My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did > sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=2147483647 (max accepted value) Which on freebsd-6.x worked

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-14 Thread Mats Lindberg
Hi again, just spotted the limit >>> swapsize unlimited I'll try to reset it and see what happens... 2011/3/14 Mark Tinguely > > You are running out of physical memory, there is no swap backstore and the > kernel is killing off other programs to claim memory. > > Compare the /etc/login.conf

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-14 Thread Mats Lindberg
Thank's Mark I did some investigation though and I can't spot the difference between 6.3 and 8.1 login.conf. --- Script started on Mon Mar 14 14:46:37 2011 fspa1# uname -a FreeBSD fspa1 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:45:45 UTC 2008 r...@des

Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-14 Thread Mats Lindberg
No - not from what I understand in the vmware it looks like a real disk device /dev/ad0s1e in the nfsroot'ed system I actually have 'of=/opt/something' which is definately to the nfs disk. 2011/3/14 Mark Tinguely > On 3/14/2011 6:17 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > >> All >> I am migrating from FreeB

FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

2011-03-14 Thread Mats Lindberg
All I am migrating from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 8.1 And I have noticed some, what I think is, strange behaviour. In FreeBSD 6.3 when I do > swapoff -a > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/whatever bs=1G count=1 I get something like "out of memory - killed" In FreeBSD 8.1 doing the same - processes around st