Re: Do we really need SLOB nowdays?

[Hyeonggon Yoo]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> 
> > > Better for what use case?  SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM.
> > >
> >
> > 1~16M is smaller than I thought. Hmm... I'm going to see how it works on
> > tiny configuration. Thank you Matthew!
> 
> Is there any reference where we can see such a configuration? Sure it does
> not work with SLUB too?

I thought why Matthew said "SLOB is for machines with 1-16MB of RAM"
is because if memory is so low, then it is sensitive to memory usage.

(But I still have doubt if we can run linux on machines like that.)