Chris Rees

This is exactly what the file is for- there are no downsides at all as far as I can see. It also means that the user's changes in rc.conf can...

Agreed, you won't get automated kills unless you do run out of memory. This is the advantage of having swap-- you get the clue of the system slowing down hugely....

The MFC After: tag says three weeks, so we know it will at least go into 13.x. I've just asked about 12.x on the commit mailing list.

On your third point, this is exactly how quarterly branches work. Breakage is rare and high priority, though I know you were hit by an incident in the past. For...

It appears to be undocumented, but FreeBSD does not allow reuse of ports by software running as a different user. You can test this by running avahi-daemon with --no-drop-root and...

I think it's unlikely to be easy- the devices are expected to be used routing-wise with the WAN port, but best of luck if you do experiment.

How about sticking kldunload iichid && kldload iichid In /etc/rc.resume? Off the top of my head the kldunload will fail if it's not loaded so will only load it if...

Having looked again, an rc.d script with only resume commands would do it, as that's what rc.resume does. I'll write one for you.

Unfortunately, you can't without dragging archived packages out. You could use (shameless plug) ports-mgmt/portdowngrade to get them, but actually cinelerra should be in ports. I'll get in touch with them...