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Record 1 2002-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

The allocation policy that always allocates from the largest free block.

OBS

Commonly implemented using a size-ordered free block chain (largest first). In practice, this tends to work quite badly because it eliminates all large blocks, so large requests cannot be met.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Politique d'allocation [qui] recherche le plus grand bloc d'espace mémoire disponible.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Método para manejar los espacios correspondientes a huecos (áreas no usadas) en la memoria virtual, por el que se escoge el menor de los espacios disponibles en donde pueda caber el segmento que se necesita, para así dejar mayor espacio para otros segmentos.

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