On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Smith wrote:
Just a quick note to say that as part of the FreeBSD-6.0 Release Cycle the RELENG_6 branch tag has just been created in the CVS repository. In preparation for the release some places in the tree now say that this branch is -STABLE but there is still work to do before this branch will be ready for release. People who are not in a position to help work out the remaining bugs in the RELENG_6 branch as we work towards the FreeBSD-6.0 Release should definitely continue using RELENG_5_4 or RELENG_5 as appropriate.
As a further FYI, a variety of debugging features are still enabled by default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc debugging. These will remain enabled through the first snapshot from the release candidate series in order to assist in debugging problems. However, anyone running RELENG_6 until that time should be aware that these debugging features result in a loss of 1/2 or more performance for many common workloads. Depending on workload and hardware, this might or might not present a problem for your environment -- the features are invaluable in diagnosing problems, however, so if it's possible to leave them on in testing, that would be useful. Obviously, tesing without them is also desired, as they significantly perturb timing, but the first question you'll get is "can you reproduce them with debugging features enabled?" :-).
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