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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:32:53 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        davidg@root.com, hsu@cs.hut.fi
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: current breaks 2.0.5 binary
Message-ID:  <199507170432.OAA18589@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>In addition, I had to remove /var/db/kvm_kernel.db and rebuild it.  Just
>rebuilding produced a core dump from kvm_mkdb.

>Could it be sensible to add

>rm -f /var/db/kvm_kernel.db

>before kvm_mkdb in /etc/rc?

No, kvm_mkdb goes to a lot of trouble to use the existing database.  This
speeds up booting by a whole 1 second on my 486DX2/66.  It was about 5
times slower in 2.0 because of poor buffering in kvm_mkdb and poor
caching in ufs.  The poor buffering has been fixed.

Bruce



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