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Date:      Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:41:52 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: witness speedups?
Message-ID:  <20020113184151.C7984@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020114024053.3D7763A03@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:40:53PM -0800
References:  <20020113160442.U7984@elvis.mu.org> <20020114024053.3D7763A03@overcee.wemm.org>

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* Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> [020113 18:40] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Is there anything you can do to speed up witness a bit?
> 
> I seem to recall something about the 'WITNESS_SKIPSPIN' option which leaves
> spinlocks out of the picture and speeds things up a lot.  I think I have
> not used it before though so I dont know for sure.

Yeah, it works...

...about as good as putting high test in a saturn. :P

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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