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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:17:38 +0200
From: Martin Faxer <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se>
To: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
Cc: Michael Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern: device pcm problems
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On 2002.07.02 17:56:28 +0000, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> Im a bit corious about what's the meaning of "UMA".
> 
> Thanks and sorry fot this simple question :)

UMA is the "Universal Memory Allocator", written by Jeff Roberson.

It's the memory manager and things like malloc(9) make use of it.

It was quite recently committed to -CURRENT so if you search the
archives it shouldn't be too hard to find mails describing it in more
detail.

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