From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 20:33:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B8337B41B for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21220 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 04:33:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([65.90.117.149]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2002 04:33:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020206091311.A96921@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosihn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Feb-02 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:02:34AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> WITNESS can really hurt. Quite possibly I should turn it off in >> GENERIC now (I wouldn't mind if someone else did that.) > > I think it should stay. Especially as we are not getting much usage in > -CURRENT. If we turn it off by default, it should come back on 3 mo. > before 5.0-RELEASE for testing. (and yes off for the actual release). I guess. Note that you can use a loader tunable 'debug.witness_watch' to turn witness off from the loader. If it's set to 0 witness won't be used even if it's compiled into the kernel (just a general FYI, witness(4) documents this as well). -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message