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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:40:50 -0500
From:      Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance of -current vs -stable
Message-ID:  <20020206144050.GA24003@virtual-voodoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020206010234.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <p05101401b88638b62611@[128.113.24.47]> <XFMail.020206010234.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:02:34AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 06-Feb-02 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Could it be due to the DDB, INVARIANTS & WITNESS options in the
> > kernel?  If it is that's fine with me, I'm just wondering where
> > that magnitude of a slowdown would be coming from.
> 
> WITNESS can really hurt.  Quite possibly I should turn it off in GENERIC 
> now (I wouldn't mind if someone else did that.)  Before major locking 
> changes people should still use it to look for bugs, but it isn't 
> very efficient I'm afraid. :(

Is 'AJ' still set in the malloc options? I seem to recall setting
/etc/malloc.conf once in CURRENT for performance reasons.

-Steve

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