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From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: but withoutI WITNESS and INVARIANTS ? (was: Re: General-CURRENT
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On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:08:21 -0500
> Nilson <nilson@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering about the general status of the -CURRENT branch - is it
> > horribly broken, or usable?
> >
> > I am wanting to bring my server back up to the latest -CURRENT (I last
> > built a kernel and world about a month ago)
>
> How safe is it to run it without WITNESS and INVARIANTS ?
>
> My -CURRENT are pretty stable an I was wondering if they would do OK
> without: INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT and WITNESS.

All of these options are meant for debugging purposes.  So removing them
will not just not hurt, but also improve performance. :-)

cheers,
le

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