diff --git a/libgen/loadgen.cc b/libgen/loadgen.cc
index acea649..836ecdb 100644
--- a/libgen/loadgen.cc
+++ b/libgen/loadgen.cc
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ memload_generator::worker_thrd(void *_tinfo)
 				    tinfo->opts->buffer_size) {
 					cur_offset = 0;
 				}
-
-				memcpy((char *)from_buffer + cur_offset,
-				    (char *)to_buffer + cur_offset,
+				// for (uint i = 0; i < tinfo->opts->transaction_size; i++) {
+				// 	((char *)to_buffer)[cur_offset + i] = ((char *)from_buffer)[cur_offset + i];
+				// }
+				memcpy((char *)to_buffer + cur_offset,
+				    (char *)from_buffer + cur_offset,
 				    tinfo->opts->transaction_size);
 				tinfo->num_trans.fetch_add(1);
 
diff --git a/libnms/alloc.c b/libnms/alloc.c
index e5db9a9..8b29e21 100644
--- a/libnms/alloc.c
+++ b/libnms/alloc.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ nms_alloc_static(int node_id, size_t sz)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	if ((region = mmap(NULL, sz, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON | MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER | MAP_NOCORE | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_NOSYNC | MAP_PREFAULT_READ, -1, 0)) == MAP_FAILED) {
+	if ((region = mmap(NULL, sz, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON | MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER | MAP_NOCORE | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_PREFAULT_READ, -1, 0)) == MAP_FAILED) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "libnms: mmap failed with %d\n", errno);
 		return NULL;
 	}