Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:17:31 +0100 From: Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> Cc: FreeBSD STABLE <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RELENG_7 /src/UPDATING out od date? Message-ID: <47DD805B.6000800@restart.be> In-Reply-To: <462797.54831.qm@web33704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <462797.54831.qm@web33704.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > Hey, > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?rev=1.507;only_with_tag=RELENG_7 > > NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW: > FreeBSD 7.x has many debugging features turned on, in > both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect > incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure > through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics. They > also substantially impact system performance. If you want to > do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization, > you'll want to turn them off. This includes various WITNESS- > related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags > in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel. Many > developers choose to disable these features on build machines > to maximize performance. > Could someone please nuke this? It is a problem with cvsweb - see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120185 Henri > > Regards, > > -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri > Arab Portal > http://www.WeArab.Net/ > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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