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On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:49:18PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> David Stanford wrote:
> > On 12/9/06, David Nugent <davidn@datalinktech.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> David Stanford wrote:
> >> > This is a somewhat OT question, but what needs to be done to turn off
> > 
> > It was my assumption to simply remove this entire section to disable
> > debugging:
> > 
> > =====================
> > # Debugging for use in -current
> 
> These don't really hurt performance
> 
> > options         KDB                     # Enable kernel debugger support.
> > options         DDB                     # Support DDB.
> 

<useful information from Doug ruthlessly snipped>

I believe that it also helps to turn off malloc debugging.  For quite
awhile I've been doing

ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf

Also, (though I'm not sure this is still necessary)
I've been adding 

CFLAGS+=-DNO_MALLOC_EXTRAS

to /etc/make.conf.  



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