Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:09:35 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>, re@freebsd.org, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 8258 for review Message-ID: <20020323230935.C33463808@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020323122442.B158@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:40:59AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=8258 > > > > Change 8258 by murray@murray_builder on 2002/03/23 06:40:09 > > > > Revert r1.51, which turned on the AJ debugging options. > > Suggested by: peter, rwatson, others > > I am VERY AGAINST this change. What is the purpose of the DP then, if we > are turning off all the debugging? Remember part of this was to get > current into more situations to improve testing coverage. You are no > longer producing something that is like -current. How about a compromise? instead of having it embedded in libc, set the /etc/malloc.conf symlink to AJ at install time instead? That is where most of the 4.x users are going to look first. DP1 is not aimed so much at -current users, but getting 4.x users to have a look etc. And then have something like this at the tail end of /etc/rc: diff -u -r1.304 rc --- rc 22 Mar 2002 23:45:13 -0000 1.304 +++ rc 23 Mar 2002 23:08:47 -0000 @@ -940,6 +940,12 @@ ;; esac +if [ -L /etc/malloc.conf ] +then + echo "WARNING: malloc(3) debugging options set, expect a slowdown!" + echo "WARNING: see /etc/malloc.conf and 'man 3 malloc'" +fi + echo '' date Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message
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