Re: port-i386/57641: -current/i386 no longer installs in 32 MB

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/57641; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: Re: port-i386/57641: -current/i386 no longer installs in 32 MB
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 22:50:25 +0000

 > Date: Wed,  4 Oct 2023 20:20:02 +0000 (UTC)
 > From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
 >=20
 > It's probably not an satisfying answer but I don't think it's a valid test
 > because DIAGNOSTIC uses a lot more memory and we shouldn't be shipping
 > actual release kernels with it enabled.
 
 How much more memory?  DIAGNOSTIC is supposed to be reasonably cheap,
 mostly cheap predicted-not-taken branches in assertions.  Should we
 move more things to DEBUG instead for expensive checks and higher
 memory usage?
 
 > Looking back over the history for the amd64 GENERIC kernel it seems like
 > nobody has disabled it for any release since NetBSD 5 though which sucks.
 
 What history did you check?  It has always been disabled in every
 release branch.  See, e.g., this commit on the netbsd-9 branch:
 
 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC?rev=3D1=
 .531.2.4&content-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=3Dnetbsd-9
 
 I checked every branch back to netbsd-2 and found it disabled.
 
 > Cc: releng people, do we have a procedure for releases somewhere that I
 > could update?
 
 I assume there must be a procedure somewhere that already has this!