Segmentation

Question 1

what are the differences between Paging and Segmentation?

Answer 1

Paging
- physical
- heterogeneous
- statically sized

Segmentation
- logical
- homogenous
- dynamically sized

Question 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of pure segmentation?

Answer 2

Advantages
- flexible and efficient memory allocation

Disadvantages
- contiguously allocated segments can cause external fragmentation.

Question 3

How do we overcome the disadvantages of pure segmentation

Answer 3

We can use paged segmentation (compaction)

Question 4

What does paged segmentation do

Answer 4

Gives each segment a page table