F17 Slowness

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 12:06 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:44:45AM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  > Just seeing if it's just me, or we back to being slow again during
>  > testing with the debug options and the kernel?  Am on a F16 kernel and
>  > is little better than F17 3.3 kernels.
> 
> the first -rc build of each kernel release has debug turned off.
> subsequent builds reenable it.

Is it possible to directly observe whether or not debugging is turned on
at runtime e.g. via some magic value in /proc or /sys ?