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From: Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to
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pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote:
> IMHO, and purely as constructive criticism, Jason's article would've been much
> more interesting if he had tested ptmalloc (in the ports tree) and we had had
> libumem.

Yes, that would have been nice, but when I tried to use ptmalloc, it 
failed to work correctly.  I don't remember the details anymore, but 
ISTR there was something wrong with the ptmalloc port that I didn't have 
the time to fix.

Jason