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Operating Systems Linux SuSE max number of slabs per kernel module (kernel 2.6.17, suse) Post 302160513 by Brendan Kennedy on Tuesday 22nd of January 2008 03:59:18 AM
Old 01-22-2008
Thanks for the clarification Perderabo! I don't know why I got to thinking of slab spaces as 'zones'. I think I'll buy that book too...

I am aware that there is a limited amount of memory space, however is it not more efficient to use slabs (especially for allocations in the data path) since they result in less fragmentation and unused pages are reclaimed by the kernel anyway?
 

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