Chapter 7 Main Memory

Question 1

What type of memory allocation can lead to fragmentation ?

Answer 1

Contigous

Question 2

What is segmentation ?

Answer 2

Memory management technique which divides processes into segments to be allocated seperatley

Question 3

What kind of fragmentation does paging avoid ?

Answer 3

internal, but suffers from extenal

Question 4

What is paging ?

Answer 4

Memory management technique which divides main mem into fixed sized blocks called frame and logical mem intor same size blocks called pages