Why paging is used?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



Why paging is used?..

Answer / vkin

Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which
is to permit the logical address space of a process to be
noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating
physical memory wherever the latter is available.

Is This Answer Correct ?    24 Yes 3 No

Why paging is used?..

Answer / hemant chand dungriyal

When our program size is too big then our main memory and this
case Operating System use paging.Paging divide big page/program/segment into small page/program/segment and store in secondary storage.
Bcoz main memory not enough memory to process a big page/program/segment that's the reason we needed pagong.

Is This Answer Correct ?    7 Yes 5 No

Post New Answer

More Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

Does ram affect excel performance?

0 Answers  


What is waiting time?

0 Answers  


What is validity fault?

0 Answers  


Explain briefly about loader and its functioning?

0 Answers  


why is the context switch overhead of a user-level threading as compared to the overhead for processes? Explain.

0 Answers  






Why is it called program files x86?

0 Answers  


What is the difference between primary & secondary storage device?

11 Answers  


What do you mean by multithreading?

0 Answers  


Enumerate the different RAID levels.

0 Answers  


What is an immutable object? How can it help in writing a concurrent application?

0 Answers  


How many types of file systems are there?

0 Answers  


Is atomic thread safe?

0 Answers  


Categories