Multiple choice

Which of the following memory management schemes suffer from internal fragmentation?

  1. Segmentation

  2. Paging

  3. Demand paging

  4. Segmentation with paging

  5. Swapping
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B Correct answer
Explanation

In paging memory-management scheme, the operating system retrieves the data from secondary storage in the same-sized blocks called pages. Some space is wasted inside the memory blocks because of the restriction on the allowed size of the block, which causes internal fragmentation.

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