Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:45:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT slowdown in last 2 weeks
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010222054502.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010222081232.A7793@webcom.it>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On 22-Feb-01 Andrea Campi wrote:
>> 
>> Hmm, Feb 3-5 (looks).
>> 
>> You mean the preemptive scheduling committed on Feb 1?  Can you try updating
>> to early this week to see if it goes away?
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> every "recent" version I tried resulted in a slowdown so I didn't recompile
> very
> often; until tonight, I was still runninng a kernel from 20010214.
> Tonight I created a new kernel but I finally figured out I should take out
> most
> debugging options:
> 
> options         DDB
># options               WITNESS
># options               WITNESS_DDB
># options               MUTEX_DEBUG
># options               INVARIANT_SUPPORT
># options               INVARIANTS

Oh goodness, don't use MUTEX_DEBUG, that is the killer.  You want WITNESS and
INVARIANTS back on though.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.010222054502.jhb>