Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of noncontiguous memory allocation.
What will be an ideal response?
The primary advantage is that jobs can run even if their memory requirement exceeds
the size of the largest available free memory area.The primary disadvantage is the increased
cost and complexity of the hardware and the operating system.A key theme of the text is
that operating system management strategies are shifting to favor responsiveness and userfriendliness
rather than trying to achieve the greatest possible resource utilization.
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A user reports that some normally accessible external sites are not responding, but most other sites are responding normally. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A. VLAN tag mismatch B. Wrong subnet mask C. Smurf attack D. Faulty routing rule