Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-06-02 16:44, Jason Evans <jasone at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>pfgshield-freebsd at 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.

It may still be worth trying.  I only started looking at `umem' from
sourceforge this week, but if there is more interest in ptmalloc,
maybe it is better if I focused on why ptmalloc fails to work on
FreeBSD.

- Giorgos