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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:32:08AM -0800, Prafulla Deuskar wrote:
> So what is the solution for this issue other than maintaining our own free list?

Ian Dowse has some tools for looking at the freelist in a core,
that might be useful in debugging this.

	http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/FreeBSD/minfo.tar.gz

Ian also had some patches for making clusters read-only when they
were free, but I don't think we have those patches any more.

	David.