Debugging features in HEAD

Erik Cederstrand erik at cederstrand.dk
Wed Apr 18 12:59:50 UTC 2012


Hi Attilio,

Den 18/04/2012 kl. 13.04 skrev Attilio Rao:
> 2012/4/18, Erik Cederstrand <erik at cederstrand.dk>:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'd like to do some performance comparisons between HEAD and e.g. 9.0. Is
>> there a more authoritative source than the handwaving at the beginning of
>> /usr/src/UPDATING in HEAD regarding what needs to be changed in HEAD to make
>> HEAD and release branches comparable?
> 
> You should look at the commits by ken@ about preparation for releases
> about the config files, they remove all the debugging options.
> 
> For instance, they are almost all about kernel debugging options and
> enabling of MALLOC_PRODUCTION in libc.

Thanks! I found the latest commit from ken@ at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2011-October/043315.html

For future reference, the wiki covers also this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/DefaultDebuggingKnobs

Erik


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