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Partitioning          

Splitting of memory into sections to allocate processes including operating system. There are two scheme for partitioning :

    • Fixed size partitions
    • Variable size partitions

Fixed sized pertitions:              

The mamory is partitioned to fixed size partition. Although the partitions are of fixed size, they need not be of equal size.
There is a problem of wastage of memory in fixed size even with unequal size. When a process is brought into memory, it is placed in the smallest available partition that will hold it.
Equal size and unequal size partition ofr fixed size partitions of main memory is shown in Figure 3.20.

 

Figure 3.20: Equal and unequal size partition.
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