Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 21:57:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: davidg@root.com, hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: current breaks 2.0.5 binary Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950716215654.8834D-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199507170432.OAA18589@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Bruce Evans wrote: > >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. Perhaps add "rm -f /var/db/kvm_kernel.db" to the "install" target for the kernel makefile? Tom
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