Question

Wastage of memory space withln the partition is called as ______.

Options

• Internal fragmentation

• External fragmentation

• Compaction

• segmentation

Answer 1

Wastage of memory space withln the partition is called as internal fragmentation.

Explanation:

Internal fragmentation occurs when a fixed-size memory partition is allocated to a process, but the process does not use the entire partition. The unused space inside the allocated partition gets wasted. This wastage of memory space within the partition is called internal fragmentation.