Running FreeBSD Current without performance penalties

Ronald Klop ronald-lists at klop.ws
Thu Oct 31 10:28:01 UTC 2019


On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 20:51:23 +0200, Brennan Vincent  
<brennan at umanwizard.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be done besides building with  
> `-DMALLOC_PRODUCTION` and `KERNCONF=GENERIC-NODEBUG` in order to build  
> current and avoid any performance penalties due to debugging flags?

Nothing else needs to be done. This is it.

Please read the note "NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:"  
in /usr/src/UPGRADING.
It does not mention GENERIC-NODEBUG, but that is the easy way to disable  
WITNESS, INVARIANTS, etc.

Regards,
Ronald.


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