RELENG_4 -> 5 -> 6: significant performance regression

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Sun Apr 30 10:31:15 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-Apr-30 10:05:40 +0100, Chris wrote:
>Does 'makeoptions     DEBUG=-g' add any kind of performance hit or
>overhead as I noticed it wasnt default in 5.4 but is in 6.0.

No.  It just means that a debug kernel is built in addition to the
normal kernel.  The major benefit is that if you do get a panic,
you can debug it without needing to rebuild the kernel.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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