Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Message-ID: <20020212021159.C9BF99F2BE@okeeffe.bestweb.net>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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