Consider a fixed partitioning scheme with equal-size partitions of 2¹6 bytes and a total main memory size of 224 bytes. A process table is maintained that includes a pointer to a partition for each resident process. How many bits are required for the pointer?

Consider a memory of size 8KB (8192 bytes) that allows dynamic, variable sized partitioning among processes and uses a linked list to keep track of free spaces (hereafter referred to as the free list) in the memory at any given time. Assume that there are 6 processes and assume that their memory size requirements (in bytes) are as given below: Р1: 500, Р2: 600, Р3: 1300, Р4: 2000, Р5: 100, Р6: 200 Assume that the initial state of the free list is as shown below (BA is the base address and Sz is the size of each free space): ВА: 0; Sz: 1100 — ВА: 1200; Sz: 600 > BА: 2000; Sz: 1800> ВА: 6000%; Sz 400

Consider a fixed partitioning scheme with equal-size partitions of 2¹6 bytes and a total main memory size of 224 bytes. A process table is maintained that includes a pointer to a partition for each resident process. How many bits are required for the pointer?

2. Briefly outline the idea of the BestFit memory allocation strategy in the context of a variable partitioning scheme and explain its disadvantages.