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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Transient Memory problem?
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:24:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20130912183206.GK68682@funkthat.com> (John-Mark Gurney's message
 of "Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:32:07 -0700")
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John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> writes:
> for kernel malloc, look at sys/kern_malloc.c..  It doesn't look like
> there is a knob to turn on kernel malloc filling, but it wouldn't be
> hard...

You want to do it in UMA, not in malloc() / free().

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