The effects of WITNESS and INVARIANTS

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> I understand your concern and will take your remark as made here, and
> put it in the document as a "Nota Bene"...  And I'll emphasise the fact
> that the 5-stable fact is the turning corner for this matter. 

There was recently a thread on the general topic of preparing FreeBSD for
benchmarking, which you might want to take a look at:

  http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18304

We have a lot of debugger features on, and there are a number of general
features that may adversely impact microbenchmarks.  I thought this was
getting added to the FreeBSD handbook or developer's handbook somewhere,
but Google isn't finding it...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research