Partitioning Strategies – Fixed
• Fixed Partitions – divide memory into equal sized
pieces (except for OS)
– Degree of multiprogramming = number of partitions
– Simple policy to implement
• All processes must fit into partition space
• Find any free partition and load the process
• Problem – what is the “right” partition size?
– Process size is limited
– Internal Fragmentation – unused memory in a partition
that is not available to other processes