Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

[Joseph Koshy]

> FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Wed May 25 05:00:48 CEST 2005
>      root at drjekyll.mkbuelow.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.

WITNESS will cause terrible slowdowns.  

You may want to try without options WITNESS, INVARIANTS and
INVARIANT_SUPPORT.

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