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Linux kernel has few SLAB allocator variants included: SLAB, SLUB and SLOB. Of these, SLOB is especially meant to be used on embedded devices – it tries to be more memory space efficient than other SLAB variants. Yesterday, I had a detailed look at SLOB allocator for possible use in compcache poject and found it unacceptable for the purpose. I did it in response to feedback on xvmalloc allocator – as part of compcache patches posted of inclusion in mainline Linux kernel: http://lkml. [Read More]

One of my Fedora 10 systems used to freeze very frequently. After lot of looking around I found its because of “KWin Composing” which gives OpenGL driven special effects for desktop. Unfortunately, Linux has always been bad at radeon drivers, so it better to disable these effects especially if you have radeon video cards.

in ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc:

in [Compositing] section change Enabled=true to Enabled=false.

Reboot after this change. Now I never get any system freeze - as is expected from solid Linux system :)