Why paging is used?
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Answer / vkin
Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which
is to permit the logical address space of a process to be
noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating
physical memory wherever the latter is available.
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Answer / hemant chand dungriyal
When our program size is too big then our main memory and this
case Operating System use paging.Paging divide big page/program/segment into small page/program/segment and store in secondary storage.
Bcoz main memory not enough memory to process a big page/program/segment that's the reason we needed pagong.
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