Showing posts with label Contiguous allocation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contiguous allocation. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Contiguous Allocation

It is the Memory allocation technique in which contiguous blocks of this are used to save files. Whenever a file is created its size is calculated and based upon its size contiguous blocks are allocated to it for store. This allocation can be Best Fit, Worst Fit or First Fit.

The Main Advantage of using this technique is that it provides fast file access since whole file is allocated contagious blocks.

The Problem associated with this technique is that every time we have to calculate the file size and then to allocate the contagious