From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 6 13:58:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D5737B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:58:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127EF43EC2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yb@sainte-barbe.org) Received: from taz.hsc.fr (ogoun.hsc.fr [192.70.106.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "taz.hsc.fr", Issuer "HSC CA" (verified OK)) by itesec.hsc.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B9E20F3F for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:58:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by taz.hsc.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B394FF; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:58:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:58:27 +0100 From: Yann Berthier To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the highest 'safe' CPUTYPE for intel? Message-ID: <20021206215827.GA42537@hsc.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021206201133.GA77953@leafy.idv.tw> <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net> X-Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants X-Web: http://www.hsc.fr/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2002 01:11 pm, leafy wrote: > > CPUTYPE=pentium4 is know to be broken. What is the known working highest > > CPUTYPE then? pentium3 or pentium2? > > Well, I know this isn't quite what you were asking, but I wanted to let the > group know that the world and kernel seem quite stable using the athlon-tbird > optimizations. Not to mention smokingly fast. > > Incidentally, I know this is a scary, scary thing, but how do I turn off the > various debugging options that are on in GENERIC? I'd like to compile a > hotrod kernel/world for testing...is it just a matter of commenting out > DEBUG=-g? You need mainly to comment the INVARIANTS and WITNESS options, and to remove the debug options from malloc (see most notably the a & j flags for malloc.conf) UPDATING should give you more info on that subject I think. Cheers, - yann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message