In the last episode (Jan 23), Rahul Siddharthan said:
> Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you leave
> > things like this in:
> >
> > options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity
> > options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity checks of internal
> > options WITNESS #Enable checks to detect deadlocks
> > options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN #Don't run witness on spinlocks
>
> I'd like to add that even with these removed, I was experiencing
> terrible performance in building ports, etc (anything involving heavy
> filesystem activity or memory usage). Setting up an /etc/malloc.conf
> fixed this (this is also briefly noted in UPDATING). Specifically I
> use (don't know whether it's optimal, but it works):
>
> # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR<
H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. R is on
by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. Setting
malloc.conf to "aj" makes it work like it does in 4.*.
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