On 08-May-01 Edwin L. Culp wrote:
> A couple of days ago, I installed current on a Dell that had been an
> NT server. Everything works fine except is seems very slow. A make
> world on current takes over 5 hours. A little more than my old K6-2
> 300 laptop.
>
> This is the first SMP kernel I have used but I have disabled it with no
> noticable difference in speed.
>
> I'm sure that I am missing something very basic. I have attached my dmesg
> and would appreciate any suggestions as to a starting point to speed it up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ed
-current has lots of debugging on by default. The witness code especially is
rather slow. However, it is helpful in finding bugs. You can try disabling
witness by building a custom kernel or setting the loader tunable
debug.witness_watch to 0. If you really need performance, you may want to run
stable instead of current anyways.
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