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   FreeBSD Foundation (freebsdfoundation@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 03:19:49 JST FreeBSD Foundation

   The FreeBSD team conquered a massive 7,000 bug backlog 💪 Once overwhelmed by thousands of open issues, the team, with the help of data visualization tools, turned chaos into clarity.

   Their approach involved setting up custom dashboards using GrimoireLab, which provided valuable insights into their Bugzilla system. They introduced new metrics like "unattended" and "abandoned" tickets to prioritize their efforts.

   Check out their full blog post: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 03:19:40 JST feld

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     • kaveman
     @kaveman @FreeBSDFoundation can you give a more specific example? I prefer a clean install having as few services running as possible, anyway. I find trying to achieve the same on a Linux install a completely intractable problem.
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     kaveman (kaveman@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 03:19:48 JST kaveman

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     @FreeBSDFoundation Well done folks! now, if you could turn your gaze on those defaults... the OOB experience, especially for a sysadmin coming from Linux is just terrible. /ducks.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 05:15:30 JST feld

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     • kaveman
     @kaveman what prompted them to kldload the ipfw module manually, though? The handbook doesn't recommend that and neither does the firewall(7) man page. I've been bitten by this behavior before as well, but it was 100% my fault for not paying attention anyway :)
     
     > network performance was also pretty terrible compared to linux due to the conservative defaults
     
     both should basically be tuned for gigabit out of the box. If you want 10gbit line rate you have to tune both in my experience. I have a whole list of sysctls I change on each based on what I'm doing.
     
     Knowing how to diagnose and tune TCP stacks seems to be a dying art. I have always wished the kernels could just Do The Right Thing but there are consequences of every knob you turn: maybe you'll get more performance, but now you can't accept as many TCP connections anymore without kernel memory usage exploding, etc.
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     kaveman (kaveman@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 05:16:03 JST kaveman

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     @feld @FreeBSDFoundation this happened recently: a colleague, who's trying out FreeBSD discovered that if you kldload ipfw, it loads and enables the firewall and with the default action of denying everything, got locked out of the machine. network performance was also pretty terrible compared to linux due to the conservative defaults.

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