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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: davidg@root.com, hsu@cs.hut.fi
Subject: Re: current breaks 2.0.5 binary
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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