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NAGARJUNA DEGREE COLLEGE

FOR WOMEN, KADAPA


PRESENTATION
ON
SEGMENTATION
BY
PATAN ARIFOON
MCA.,(M.Tech)
APSET & UGC NET QUALIFIED
SEGMENTATION
A process is divided into segments .
The chunk that a program is divided
into which are not necessarily all of
the same sizes are called segments.
Segmentation gives the users view
of the process which paging does not
give.
Types of Segmentation
There are two types of
segmentation:

Virtual Memory
Segmentation
Simple Memory
Segmentation
VIRTUAL MEMORY
SEGMENTATION
 It divides the process into a
number of segments. All the
segments are not divided at a
time. Virtual memory
segmentation may or may not
take place at the run time of a
program.
SIMPLE MEMORY SEGMENTATION
Each process is divided
into a number of
segmentation, all of which
are loaded into memory at
run time, through not
necessarily contiguously.
Segment table
A table stores the information about all
such segment and is called segment table.
It maps two-dimensional logical address
into one-dimensional physical address .
Its each table entry has :
Base address: It contains the starting
physical address where the segment
reside in memory.
Limit : It specifies the length of the
segment.
Advantages of segmentation
No internal fragmentation.
Flexibility: Segmentation provides a higher
degree of flexibility than paging. Segments
can be of variable size, and processes can be
designed to have multiple segments.
Sharing : segmentation allows for sharing of
memory segments between processes. This
can be useful for inter-process
communication or for sharing code libraries.
As a complete module is loaded all at once,
segmentation improves CPU utilization.
Disadvantage of segmentation
As processes are loaded and removed from the
memory, the free memory space is broken into
little pieces ,causing External Fragmentation.
Overhead: The use of a segment table can
increase overhead and reduce performance.
Each segment table entry requires additional
memory.
Due to the need for two memory accesses, one
for the segment table and the other for main
memory, access time to retrieve the instruction
increases.

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