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      abubin
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      When I bootup the developer pfsense, I notice there is a line that say "witness" is enabled and that this will slow down the system.

      I did some digging on what it witness and it seems to be some sort of lock validation facility. With this turned on, it will degrade the system performance.

      May I know is this only enabled in developer edition? Can turn it off?

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        sullrich
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        Your running the developer edition.  It is targeted to pfSense/FreeBSD developers who may want to debug an issue.

        Compile a new kernel based on pfSense.6 if you want to get around it.  Search your dev edition /home directories for it and copy it to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/config/

        See the FreeBSD handbook for more information related to kernel compiling.

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