"iozone -w -i 1 -l 512 -r 4k -s 1g" against ZFS (without compression) can be a denial of service attack on a 32 GiByte RAM system

2024-11-02 Thread Mark Millard
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277389#c42 for an example of loss of control of a system via the extensive OOM activity that resulted. The problem has been observed on both amd64 and aarch64: the original report was for amd64 and my activity was for aarch64. The original repo

Re: beastie menu is broken in latest update (stable/14-n269388-1821145f28e9)

2024-11-02 Thread Warner Losh
On Sat, Nov 2, 2024, 1:06 PM void wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 10:42:16AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > >OK. This is because the text-only boot loader only supports cons25-level > of > >character set (which is ASCII + upper page IBMPC) > >rather than Unicode. There's 0 chance that unicode suppo

Re: beastie menu is broken in latest update (stable/14-n269388-1821145f28e9)

2024-11-02 Thread void
On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 10:42:16AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: OK. This is because the text-only boot loader only supports cons25-level of character set (which is ASCII + upper page IBMPC) rather than Unicode. There's 0 chance that unicode support will be added to that boot loader (you need the gra

FreeBSD 14.2-BETA1 Now Available

2024-11-02 Thread Colin Percival
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The first BETA build of the 14.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 14.2-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA1 i386 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA1 powerpc GENERIC o 14.2-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 14.2-BETA1 powerpc6

Re: beastie menu is broken in latest update (stable/14-n269388-1821145f28e9)

2024-11-02 Thread Warner Losh
OK. This is because the text-only boot loader only supports cons25-level of character set (which is ASCII + upper page IBMPC) rather than Unicode. There's 0 chance that unicode support will be added to that boot loader (you need the graphics based one), so I used graphics vs not to know when to use