receiving a request for allocation of a size of memory;

identifying a first memory block in a first modified buddy system memory allocation free block list of a first modified buddy system memory allocator, wherein a size of the first memory block is smaller than the size of memory from the request;

searching a second modified buddy system memory allocation free block list of a second modified buddy system memory allocator for a second memory block that is contiguous with the first memory block;

identifying the second memory block in the second modified buddy system memory allocation free block list, wherein a size of the second memory block is different from the size of the first memory block and is smaller than the size of memory from the request; and

allocating the first memory block and the second memory block to a client application to satisfy the request for the size of memory.