GNU malloc vs. slab alloc

[Torsten Foertsch]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 21:52, you wrote:
> Not having looked at your patch, I have a simple question: Does you
> patch support storing objects of size > 1Mb? I ask b/c I submited a
> patch that uses the slab allocator for objects < 1Mb, but for larger
> sizes it uses malloc().

I saw your patch the other day and plan to incorporate it. But at the moment 
this is rather a nice to have for me. I think I would switch to mmap() + 
madvise() to let big items go to swap space.

Torsten
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