External and Internal Fragmentation

Compaction

Definition – a solution to external fragmentation that consolidates separate free holes into a contiguous block

May not work for all processes

May be quite resource intensive

Compaction with Swapping

Definition – a solution to external fragmentation that consolidates separate free holes into a contiguous block by swapping processes to a backing store to free memory

May not work for all processes

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