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Scott Long today announced the release. This is a point release over 5.2-RELEASE which addresses many critical bugs.
The -CURRENT have already differentiated from the RELENG_5_2 branch, say, 5.2.1-RELEASE by this time. The most significant differences are:
It can be obtained here:
http://www.arbornet.org/~junsu/gcov.diff
Profiling based optimization means better performance.
Here’s phk’s suggestion:
We can compile our kernel with "--test-coverage --profile-arcs" to
do basic-block profiling (see kernbb(8) and gcov(1)/gcc(1) docs.)The FreeBSD 5-SELECT cvs repository, my selected FreeBSD 5.x collection is available by HTTP browse here:
http://bsd.delphij.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/
A commit mail archive is available here:
I have sent a headsup to bugs list of DragonflyBSD, which mentions the recent bugfixes on FreeBSD-CURRENT committed by Dr. Alan Cox.
I have just tried to umount /usr on my test box in order to get all outstanding writes to be sync’ed to disk (as Kirk McKusick said, the umount system call will do true sync of a file system).
das@ [David Schultz] has done some benchmark of the different PID allocators recently being discussed on hackers@, and the result is available here.
As the FreeBSD 5.2.1 approaching its release day, I begun to think about the possiblity of having a personal customized release.
It’s not too hard for me, and also valuable because the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has restricted the changes in a point release to be mainly “critical bugfixes only”.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav has posted a discussion on FreeBSD-arch (I have to use a outside link instead of FreeBSD’s own mailing list archive, because it didn’t updated from 2004-01-26 for unknown reason), accroding to this post, we see a need of running init(8) in jails, which allows us to terminate a jail cleanly.
Daniel Eischen today committed a new patch and this will make KSE default threading library on FreeBSD!