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On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:

> But on the contrary, I wonder when SLOB is useful than SLUB.
> is it for really tiny linux systems that has under 1M of RAM?
> But can linux be that small?

SLOB I think is mainly a nice intro into how slab allocators work. It is a
simple architecture and the code is to read and therefore easily
understood. I heard of some use cases from  others but I have only ever
been able to run a kernel boot in KVM with SLOB.