Computer Science 322
Operating Systems

• Announcements
• Term Project out
• Lecture assignment recap
• Memory Management
  • Binding time
    • Programming or compile time
    • Load time
    • Execution time
  • Logical vs. Physical Address Space
  • Memory protection
  • Swapping
  • Contiguous allocation
    • hardware support: limit and base/relocation registers
    • first-fit/best-fit/worst-fit
  • Fragmentation
    • external: waste between allocated chunks
    • internal: waste within allocated chunks
    • reduce external fragmentation with a compaction operation

Due at the start of class, Monday, April 5.

You need not submit answers to these questions, but you will have a chance to ask questions about them at the start of class.

1. SG&G Practice Exercise 8.3, p. 350
2. SG&G Exercise 8.9, p. 351

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to jteresco AT mtholyoke.edu by the start of class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

1. SG&G Exercise 8.11, p. 352