Question

Explain segmentation with paging in operating system

Answer 1

A Memory Management technique in which memory is divided into variable sized chunks which can be allocated to processes. Each chunk is called a Segment.

A table stores the information about all such segments and is called Segment Table. 

 

Segment Table: It maps two dimensional Logical address into one dimensional Physical address.

It’s each table entry has

Base Address: It contains the starting physical address where the segments reside in memory.

Limit: It specifies the length of the segment.





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