Hi

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:39:00 -0800


Dan Maas wrote:

> 
> A quick question- can you suggest some tuning parameters for the allocator?
> I never allocate blocks smaller than 4KB or larger than 10MB; the most
> typical situation will be a few hundred blocks of around 1MB each. Maybe I
> don't even need the slab allocator?
> 


If you never allocate blocks smaller than a page then the SLAB allocator 
is redundant.

	-hpa