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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:31:11 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_4 -> 5 -> 6: significant performance regression
Message-ID:  <20060430103111.GC980@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0604300205l64f19573u250a727e4c83f499@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060427160536.M96305@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060427181226.GA66431@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060428122448.K57436@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060428182818.GA10410@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0604300205l64f19573u250a727e4c83f499@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 2006-Apr-30 10:05:40 +0100, Chris wrote:
>Does 'makeoptions     DEBUG=-g' add any kind of performance hit or
>overhead as I noticed it wasnt default in 5.4 but is in 6.0.

No.  It just means that a debug kernel is built in addition to the
normal kernel.  The major benefit is that if you do get a panic,
you can debug it without needing to rebuild the kernel.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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