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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>,
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Subject: Re: Long uptime 5.2.1 server
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Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> writes:
> There were always two things I would recommend waiting for before moving
> to 5.x:
> 1. Performance. I remember reading the after 5.0's release, much
>    debugging code was still in the OS and kernel which would reduce
>    performance.

This debugging code is controlled by kernel options (INVARIANTS,
WITNESS etc.).  Those options were included in GENERIC in early 5.x
releases, but were removed before 5.3 (and you could always remove or
comment them out yourself).

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