Memory question. Fragmentation?

PowermacG4_450

PowermacG4_450

OS X Jaguar
Under 9, as you open and quit a series of programs, the unused portion of your macs memory tends to become fragmented into several noncontigous blocks.

Since os X apps have protected memory (space), can fragmentation still occur?

I was wondering this yesterday... im curious. :)

thanks.
 
I just read in another thread recently that OSX does memory compaction, taking all the little bits of used memory and grouping them together to make a large contiguous block of free memory.
 
Originally posted by PowermacG4_450
Under 9, as you open and quit a series of programs, the unused portion of your macs memory tends to become fragmented into several noncontigous blocks.

Since os X apps have protected memory (space), can fragmentation still occur?
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Fragmentation was purely a product of OS 9's antiquated memory management. It's a non-issue in OS X.
 
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