Slab Allocation - Systems Using Slab Allocation

Systems Using Slab Allocation

  1. AmigaOS (introduced in 4.0)
  2. DragonFly BSD (introduced in release 1.0)
  3. FreeBSD (introduced in 5.0)
  4. Haiku (introduced in alpha 2)
  5. HP-UX (introduced in 11i)
  6. Linux (introduced in kernel 2.2, many popular distributions now choose the SLUB allocation method over SLAB, but it is still available as an option) -- In Linux, slab allocation provides a kind of front-end to the zoned buddy allocator for those sections of the kernel that require more flexible memory allocation than the standard 4KB page size
  7. NetBSD (introduced in 4.0)
  8. Solaris (introduced in 2.4)
  9. The Perl 5 compiler uses a slab allocator for internal memory management

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