Practice - Buddy System
Practice Questions
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What is the Buddy System?
💡 Hint: Think about memory management in operating systems.
What happens when a block is freed?
💡 Hint: Consider the process of freeing memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary purpose of the Buddy System?
💡 Hint: Think about the approach of the system.
True or False: The Buddy System only allocates memory of exactly requested sizes.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how block sizes are defined.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a scenario where 50KB is requested from a 512KB memory pool using the Buddy System, demonstrate the allocation and how fragmented memory may occur after several allocations.
💡 Hint: Keep track of both the allocations and the leftover memory after each operation.
Analyze how the Buddy System would handle a sequence of operations, including several requests and deallocations within a 256KB block, then evaluate the efficiency against another memory management technique.
💡 Hint: Focus on analyzing the trade-offs of this system in terms of speed and memory allocation efficiency.
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