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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2003 14:51:43 -0700
From:      "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net>
To:        John Stockdale <jstockdale@stanford.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DDB, INVARIENTS, WITNESS and derivatives
Message-ID:  <200305071451.43790.cbiffle@safety.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030507213933.GA10841@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <001101c314de$2e8d8e30$3d2c0c80@quenya> <20030507213933.GA10841@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 02:39 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:18:18PM -0700, John Stockdale wrote:
> > Just wondering if there is any reason to still be building the
> > 5.0-Current kernel with DDB, INVARIENTS, INVARIENT_SUPPORT, WITNESS, and
> > WITNESS_SKIPSPIN. I'd rather remove the debugging for speed, but not if
> > it will break things (like I remember the report being a little while
> > back).
>
> Yes, to assist with debugging during the 5.1 release cycle :-)

This is basically the long and short of it.

I've been running stripped non-debug kernels on my desktop with -current for 
some time, with no breakage.  If performance is important to you, it should 
work.  But you'll less information to contribute to the debugging cycle.

-Cliff L. Biffle



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