Multiple choice

The space occupied by the memory management mapping tables is _______ fragmentation.

  1. internal

  2. external

  3. table

  4. none of these

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Table fragmentation refers to the physical memory consumed by memory management data structures like page tables, segment tables, or allocation maps. This overhead is necessary for virtual memory translation but reduces available memory for actual processes.