From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19: 8:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA86D37B492; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A5423286; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:16:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id C9BF99F2BE; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:11:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosihn Message-Id: <20020212021159.C9BF99F2BE@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Feb-02 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:02:34AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> WITNESS can really hurt. Quite possibly I should turn it off in >> GENERIC now (I wouldn't mind if someone else did that.) > > I think it should stay. Especially as we are not getting much usage in > -CURRENT. If we turn it off by default, it should come back on 3 mo. > before 5.0-RELEASE for testing. (and yes off for the actual release). I guess. Note that you can use a loader tunable 'debug.witness_watch' to turn witness off from the loader. If it's set to 0 witness won't be used even if it's compiled into the kernel (just a general FYI, witness(4) documents this as well). -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message