Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:50:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dg@root.com Cc: jdp@polstra.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Message-ID: <199610101350.JAA12560@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610101102.EAA26552@root.com> from David Greenman at "Oct 10, 96 04:02:57 am"
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> >I think you're only seeing it because you built your kernel with -DDEBUG.
>
> Yikes! I hope this isn't true. You really don't want to use DEBUG for any
>sort of real use of the system. It's intended to hide all sorts of garbage
>that we didn't know what else to do with but didn't want to delete completely
>(because it had some utility when we were trying to figure out some problem or
>other). All sorts of bad things might happen if you try to run with it.
Yep, its true. I've been running DEBUG ever since I've been trying to get AFS
to work reliably under FreeBSD. It doesnt inhibit performance or reliability
any that I can tell, and certainly helps debugging :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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