Multiple choice technology operating systems

15 Why do processes never decrease in size?

  1. 1 They never releases the memory utilized

  2. 2 They release the memory but kernel does not use them

  3. 3 Since they are running

  4. 4 It’s a false statement
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Process virtual memory size can grow due to heap allocation and memory-mapped files, but the kernel does not typically shrink a process's virtual memory space even when memory is freed. This is because memory is released back to the process's internal free list, not necessarily to the system. Option B captures this concept.

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