What is compaction refers to
2020
What is compaction refers to
- A.
a technique for overcoming internal fragmentation
- B.
a paging technique
- C.
a technique for overcoming external fragmentation
- 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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