Just wondering. Does the memory fragmentation problem affect user mode
programs. My OS book said that virtual memory supposedly solved the memory
fragmentation problem because memory was broken up into small blocks which
can be placed anywhere when being swapped into memory. Then the translation
tables take care of the addressing issues. Since parts of the kernel aren't
swapped out (and I assume don't use virtual addresses) then I can understand
how fragmentation affects it. But after a system is up and running how how
does fragmentation come to affect the system?
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