From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19:10:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA0037B4A8 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FF223208; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:16:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 803379F2B0; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:11:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 22:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Georg-W Koltermann Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Cc: Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Message-Id: <20020212021156.803379F2B0@okeeffe.bestweb.net> 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 07-Feb-02 Georg-W Koltermann wrote: > At Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:33:14 -0500 (EST), > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> [...] >> I guess. Note that you can use a loader tunable 'debug.witness_watch' to >> turn >> witness off from the loader. If it's set to 0 witness won't be used even if >> it's compiled into the kernel (just a general FYI, witness(4) documents this >> as >> well). > > Nice feature, thanks for the hint. I can't find it documented in > witness(4), however: > > hunter# grep -i watch /usr/src/share/man/man4/witness.4 > hunter# > > CVSup is from Feb 6. Hmm, doh. I document the other loader tunables and sysctls, just not debug.witness_watch. If someone with some mdoc fu and spare time wants to add a para noting that debug.witness_watch can be set to 0 as a loader tunable to turn off witness and that the read-only sysctl debug.witness_watch can be used at runtime to see if witness is enabled or not. > -- > Regards, > Georg. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message