Re: Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0

From: Anonymous <swell.k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:48 +0400
Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>> As we're approaching 8.0 BETA3, now would be a really good time to
>>> start identifying functional and performance regressions from the
>>> 7.x series. We've done a mixed job at this in the past, but when it
>>> comes to "I'll do better some day", there's no time like the
>>> present :-).  Some notes:
>>
>> Other than the removal of whats below from the kernel, what other
>> adjustments should be made to make more accurate comparisons ?
>
> The main thing I'm aware of is malloc debugging in userspace -- the
> best way to do this is to uncomment MALLOC_PRODUCTION in
> src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c:
[...]

According to docs/136029 one can also use it in make.conf(5),
no need to touch malloc.c.
Received on Wed Aug 12 2009 - 16:17:38 UTC

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