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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200305071451.43790.cbiffle>