Memory Mngt - CoE

The primary purpose of a computer system is to execute programs. These programs along with the information they access should be in the memory during execution.

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It is the place where programs and information are kept when the processor are effectively utilizing them.

It is a method in the operating system to manage operations between main memory and disk during process execution. Its main aim is to achieve efficient utilization of memory.

Give the 4 main memory management techniques.

In ____, a routine is not loaded until it is called. All routines are residing on disk in a relocatable load format.

• dynamic loading

• static loading

When the ____ is executed, it checks whether the needed routine is already in memory or not. If not available then the program loads the routine into memory.

It is the transferring of a process temporarily into a secondary memory from the main memory.

• linking

• paging

• swapping

The memory is usually divided into two partitions. List the two partitions.

In memory allocation, available memory is known as a ____.

Which solution for dynamic memory allocation problems is described here?

The operating system searches through the list of free blocks of memory to find the block that is closest in size to the memory request from the process.

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