• This diagram shows memory configuration under dynamic partitioning after several placements and swapping-out operations have been carried out. Addresses go from left to right; gray areas indicate blocks occupied by processes; white areas indicate free memory blocks. The last process placed is 2-Mbyte and is marked with an X. Only one process was swapped out after that.

4M

1M

X

5M

8M

2M

4M

3M

• What was the maximum size of the swapped-out process?
• What was the size of the free block just before it was partitioned by X?
• A new 3-Mbyte allocation request must be satisfied next. Indicate the intervals of memory where a partition will be created for the new process under the following four placement algorithms: best-fit, first-fit, next-fit, worst-fit. For each algorithm, draw a horizontal segment under the memory strip and label it clearly.

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

a As per the memory configuration given the process that is recently loaded is of size 2 Mbytes The size of the free block before the last process 2 M... View the full answer