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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A SMPng suggestion..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000921231509.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <39CAF7B5.F1786B15@gorean.org>

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On 22-Sep-00 Doug Barton wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> If you are running -current with the SMPng code, it would probably
>> be very production to stick the following options in your kernel
>> config, especially if you are having crashes:
>> 
>> SMP_DEBUG
>> DIAGNOSTIC
>> INVARIANTS
>> INVARIANT_SUPPORT
> 
>       Rumor not too long ago was that DIAGNOSTIC is evil, and can actually
> cause more problems than it solves. Has that changed?

Uh, well.  It has been helping finding bugs so far.  I personally have
yet to see a problem with it.  It probably hurts performance, but all
of these options do that.

> Doug
> -- 
>         "The dead cannot be seduced."
>               - Kai, "Lexx"
> 
>       Do YOU Yahoo!?

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