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Remove libumem port idea -- this was done as part of the ZFS port.

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<ideas>
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.65 2008/03/20 15:32:50 mlaier Exp $
$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.66 2008/03/20 18:17:01 pav Exp $
</cvs:keyword>
</cvs:keywords>
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</desc>
</idea>
<idea id="libumem">
<title>Port libumem to FreeBSD</title>
<desc>
<p>Solaris 9 and later versions include <code>libumem</code>, a user
space slab allocator that includes debugging features we may want to
have on FreeBSD too.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:leeym@FreeBSD.org">Yen-Ming Lee</a> has a port of
the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/umem">Linux port</a>. He
is looking for someone who is interested in benchmarking, testing, or
evaluating his port. It is available in ports/devel/umem.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:jasone@FreeBSD.org">Jason Evans</a> has a benchmark
suite at <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/benchmarks/benchmarks.tbz">
here</a>. A description of the benchmark can be found in his
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf">
jemalloc paper</a></p>
<p>Online references for <code>libumem</code> are (in suggested reading
order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Robert Benson.
"<em>Identifying Memory Management Bugs Within Applications Using
the libumem Library</em>".
Technical article at
<a href="http://access1.sun.com/">Sun Developer Technical Support</a>.
<a href="http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/libumem.html">http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/libumem.html</a>.
2003.</li>
<li>Jeff Bonwick.
"<em>The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel</em>".
USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference.
June 6-10, 1994.
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html">http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html</a></li>
<li>John Adams and Jeff Bonwick.
"<em>Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs
and Arbitrary Resources</em>".
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/index.html">USENIX 2001</a>.
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/bonwick.html">http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/bonwick.html</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Good C knowledge (reading and writing).</li>
<li>Experience with debugging allocation problems.</li>
</ul>
</desc>
</idea>
<idea id="prebind">
<title>Port prebind from OpenBSD</title>