RELENG_7 /src/UPDATING out od date?

Henri Hennebert hlh at restart.be
Sun Mar 16 13:17:36 PDT 2008


Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?rev=1.507;only_with_tag=RELENG_7
> 
> NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW:
> 	FreeBSD 7.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,
> 	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
> 	developers choose to disable these features on build machines
> 	to maximize performance.
> Could someone please nuke this?

It is a	problem with cvsweb - see 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120185

Henri
>  
> Regards,
> 
> -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
> Arab Portal
> http://www.WeArab.Net/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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