Chapter 10, Problem 44E

Explanation of Solution

Memory management:

The operating system in a computer is responsible for managing primary memory of the computer; this is referred to as memory management.

Techniques of memory management:

There are three techniques of memory management and they are as follows,

• Single contiguous memory management:
  • Single contiguous memory management is the simplest memory management technique used in a computer operating system.
• Partition memory management:
  • Partition memory management technique is used to partition the main memory into a set of non-overlapping memory blocks in a computer operating system.
• Paged memory management:
  • Paged memory management technique is used to partition the main memory into a set of small fixed-sized blocks called as frames...