Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

External fragmentation occurs when unused gaps arise between blocks of allocated memory. This situation can happen, for example, when an application allocates three blocks in succession and then frees ...