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Monolithic structure of operating system advantages and disadvantages

Answer 1

Monolithic Kernel Advantages

Generally speaking a monolithic operating system kernel is faster due to small source and compiled code size. Less code means also less bugs and security issues.

Monolithic Kernel disadvantages

Monolithic OS being a single big pile of code has disadvantages. For example, making changes is not easy and testing takes more time. It is hard to maintain, patch or extend. Bug fixing or adding new features requires the compilation of the whole source code which is a time and resource consuming process.

Answer 2

Advantage of Monolithic structure

• Reading as well as the writing of data can be optimized for performance without regard to the issue, for example, multi-user data sharing.  
• Read data directly from the disk via file system
• In memory massively quicker  
• Less code to write

Disadvantage:

• Lack of support as well as shared access
• When the quantity of data is large to load into memory and also too much time to load and too much virtual memory used.
• The access is sequential.

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