Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:51:02 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created. Message-ID: <20050719115102.GB82554@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <20050711215527.D29110@fledge.watson.org> References: <1121099976.62346.48.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050711215527.D29110@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Smith wrote:
>
> >Just a quick note to say that as part of the FreeBSD-6.0 Release Cycle
> >the RELENG_6 branch tag has just been created in the CVS repository.
> >In preparation for the release some places in the tree now say that this
> >branch is -STABLE but there is still work to do before this branch will
> >be ready for release. People who are not in a position to help work out
> >the remaining bugs in the RELENG_6 branch as we work towards the
> >FreeBSD-6.0 Release should definitely continue using RELENG_5_4 or
> >RELENG_5 as appropriate.
>
> As a further FYI, a variety of debugging features are still enabled by
> default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc
> debugging. These will remain enabled through the first snapshot from the
> release candidate series in order to assist in debugging problems.
> However, anyone running RELENG_6 until that time should be aware that
> these debugging features result in a loss of 1/2 or more performance for
> many common workloads. Depending on workload and hardware, this might or
> might not present a problem for your environment -- the features are
> invaluable in diagnosing problems, however, so if it's possible to leave
> them on in testing, that would be useful. Obviously, tesing without them
> is also desired, as they significantly perturb timing, but the first
> question you'll get is "can you reproduce them with debugging features
> enabled?" :-).
It's a trivial thing, I know, but is there any chance of someone
committing the following to RELENG_6?
lack-of-gravitas:/usr/src:% diff -u share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile{.orig,}
--- share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile.orig Tue Jul 19 12:40:25 2005
+++ share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile Tue Jul 19 12:41:40 2005
@@ -68,9 +68,10 @@
*default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
-# The following line is for 5-stable. If you want 4-stable, 3-stable, or
-# 2.2-stable, change to "RELENG_4", "RELENG_3", or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
-*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
+# The following line is for 6-stable. If you want 5-stable, 4-stable,
+# 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to "RELENG_5", "RELENG_4",
+# "RELENG_3", or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
+*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
*default delete use-rel-suffix
# If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
Cheers,
Matthew
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