What is compaction refers to

2020

What is compaction refers to

  1. A.

    a technique for overcoming internal fragmentation

  2. B.

    a paging technique

  3. C.

    a technique for overcoming external fragmentation

  4. D.

    a technique for compressing the data

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Correct answer: C

Compaction is a memory management technique used to address external fragmentation. It works by rearranging the contents of main memory, moving allocated blocks together to create a single large block of free memory.

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