External fragmentation is solved by any three methods:-
1.compaction:- attacks the problem of external fragmentation by moving all the allocated memory blocks into single unit by combining all free memory holes.
2.garbage collection:- it collects all the memory which is inaccessible and return them as a free memory.
3.paging:-breaking up physical memory into fixed size blocks and than filling these blocks by logical memory of same size.
Fragmentation occurs in a dynamic memory allocation system when many of the free blocks are too small to satisfy any request. External Fragmentation: External Fragmentation happens when a dynamic memory allocation algorithm allocates some memory and a small piece is left over that cannot be effectively used. If too much external fragmentation occurs, the amount of usable memory is drastically reduced. Total memory space exists to satisfy a request, but it is not contiguous. Internal Fragmentation: Internal fragmentation is the space wasted inside of allocated memory blocks because of restriction on the allowed sizes of allocated blocks. Allocated memory may be slightly larger than requested memory; this size difference is memory internal to a partition, but not being used
External fragmentation refers to the division of free storage into small pieces over a period of time, due to an inefficient memory allocation algorithm, resulting in the lack of sufficient storage for another program because these small pieces are not contiguous.
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Best FitThe allocator places a process in the smallest block of unallocated memory in which it will fit.Problems:It requires an expensive search of the entire free list to find the best hole.More importantly, it leads to the creation of lots of little holes that are not big enough to satisfy any requests. This situation is called fragmentation, and is a problem for all memory-management strategies, although it is particularly bad for best-fit.Solution:One way to avoid making little holes is to give the client a bigger block than it asked for. For example, we might round all requests up to the next larger multiple of 64 bytes. That doesn't make the fragmentation go away, it just hides it.Unusable space in the form of holes is called external fragmentationUnusable space in the form of holes is called external fragmentationDGR
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explain fragmentation?
external fragmentation
external fragmentation use in paging
segmentation
External Fragmentation: External Fragmentation happens when a dynamic memory allocation algorithm allocates some memory and a small piece is left over that cannot be effectively used. If too much external fragmentation occurs, the amount of usable memory is drastically reduced. Total memory space exists to satisfy a request, but it is not contiguous. Internal Fragmentation: Internal fragmentation is the space wasted inside of allocated memory blocks because of restriction on the allowed sizes of allocated blocks. Allocated memory may be slightly larger than requested memory; this size difference is memory internal to a partition, but not being used
Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem whichis to permit the logical address space of a process to benoncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocatingphysical memory wherever the latter is available.
Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem whichis to permit the logical address space of a process to benoncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocatingphysical memory wherever the latter is available.
External fragmentation occurs when free memory blocks are scattered throughout memory, making it difficult to allocate contiguous blocks of memory to processes. Internal fragmentation, on the other hand, happens when allocated memory is larger than what is actually needed, leading to wasted space within memory blocks.
Fragmentation occurs in a dynamic memory allocation system when many of the free blocks are too small to satisfy any request. External Fragmentation: External Fragmentation happens when a dynamic memory allocation algorithm allocates some memory and a small piece is left over that cannot be effectively used. If too much external fragmentation occurs, the amount of usable memory is drastically reduced. Total memory space exists to satisfy a request, but it is not contiguous. Internal Fragmentation: Internal fragmentation is the space wasted inside of allocated memory blocks because of restriction on the allowed sizes of allocated blocks. Allocated memory may be slightly larger than requested memory; this size difference is memory internal to a partition, but not being used
External fragmentation describes the situation where free memory blocks are scattered throughout the memory space, which can make it challenging to find contiguous blocks of memory for larger programs or data. This can slow down the memory allocation process and waste memory resources. Techniques such as compaction or paging are used to reduce external fragmentation and ensure efficient memory utilization.
in early, computer system has contiguous memory allocation,each process is allocated in a single contiguous(together) memory!!(allocating into memory addresses one by one,)it has tackled memory fragmentation(both internal and external). not allocating for a fixed size memory block.so no internal fragmentation, allocating contiguously ,so no external fragmentation!!!
External fragmentation is reduced by compaction. Compaction moves memory around until it is all placed together in one big block.