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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:56:57 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Atte Peltomaki <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20030123185657.GB54656@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030123181628.GA2185@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
References:  <20030123123522.C9068-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20030123181628.GA2185@papagena.rockefeller.edu>

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In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said:
> Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave
> > things like this in:
> > 
> > options         INVARIANTS              #Enable calls of extra sanity
> > options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT       #Extra sanity checks of internal
> > options         WITNESS                 #Enable checks to detect deadlocks
> > options         WITNESS_SKIPSPIN        #Don't run witness on spinlocks
> 
> I'd like to add that even with these removed, I was experiencing
> terrible performance in building ports, etc (anything involving heavy
> filesystem activity or memory usage).  Setting up an /etc/malloc.conf
> fixed this (this is also briefly noted in UPDATING).  Specifically I
> use (don't know whether it's optimal, but it works):
> 
> # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR<

H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on
by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default.  Setting
malloc.conf to "aj" makes it work like it does in 4.*.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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