src/UPDATING
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at linux.gr
Mon Aug 23 06:12:15 PDT 2004
On 2004-08-23 10:46, Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> shouldn't
> NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
> now be 6.x ...
Would something like this seem ok to you? It only mentions FreeBSD-CURRENT
instead of a specific version, so it will also work for FreeBSD 7.X when
that comes along.
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Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v
retrieving revision 1.346
diff -u -r1.346 UPDATING
--- UPDATING 21 Aug 2004 19:44:43 -0000 1.346
+++ UPDATING 23 Aug 2004 12:42:30 -0000
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running
portupgrade. Important recent entries: 20040724 (default X changes).
-NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
- FreeBSD 5.x has many debugging features turned on, in
- both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect
- incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure
- through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics. They
- also substantially impact system performance. If you want to
- do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
+NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FREEBSD-CURRENT IS SLOW:
+ The CURRENT branch of FreeBSD has many debugging features turned
+ on, in both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to
+ detect incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud
+ failure through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics.
+ They also substantially impact system performance. If you want
+ to do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
you'll want to turn them off. This includes various WITNESS-
related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags
in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel. Many
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