Month: February 2014

  • Burning all the bridges. Cleaning up jails with ezjail-admin on #FreeBSD

    I noted that my updates on my jail host didn’t actually do a delete-old/delete-old-libs during the basejail process: ezjail-admin update -i I tend to update my jails with my base host svn updates to -current, so there’s a bit of churn and burn with regards to old files and such. This came to a head […]

  • httperf tuning for #FreeBSD testing

    Was playing around with httperf to excercise Apache / stunnel SSl benchmarks on FreeBSD this week and ran into the code that nerfs simultaneous connections down from the environment ulimit of maxfiles to the limit FD_SETSIZE as defined in <select.h>. One can override this at compile time and push the system harder by passing in […]