Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 1:03:59 PM, you wrote: Xiangfei> I'm reading a book about kernel memory management. In the book, there is one Xiangfei> sentence saying "with this combination of allocators (buddy and slab Xiangfei> allocators), the kernel can ensure the amount of memory wasted due to Xiangfei> internal fragmentation is kept to a minimum.". From my understanding, I Xiangfei> think the allocators are used to deal with external fragmentation, not Xiangfei> internal. Am I right? Please correct me!!! Buddy for the external fragmentation... Slab for the internal fragmentation... -- Bora SAHIN -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
