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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