Operating Systems20805 marksCoalescing and compaction techniques
Write down the basic difference between coalescing and compaction with diagram.
Write down the basic difference between coalescing and compaction with diagram. [5]
--- Definition: Coalescing is the process of merging two or more adjacent free memory blocks into a single larger free block when a block is deallocated. - It happens immediately when a block is freed and its neighbor(s) are also free. - It only combines physically adjacent free holes. - It does ...