Performance Degradation Due To Fragmentation
Memory fragmentation is one of the most severe problems faced by system managers. Over time, it leads to degradation of system performance. Eventually, memory fragmentation may lead to complete loss of free memory.
Memory fragmentation is a kernel programming level problem. During real-time computing of applications, fragmentation levels can reach as high as 99%, and may lead to system crashes or other instabilities. This type of system crash can be difficult to avoid, as it is impossible to anticipate the critical rise in levels of memory fragmentation.
According to research conducted by the International Data Corporation, the performance degradation is largely due to external fragmentation; the lifespan of server is shortened by 33% by external fragmentation alone. This leads to a direct increase of 33% in the yearly budget for hardware upgrades. Thus it can be concluded that memory fragmentation has an undesirable effect not only on memory usage and processing speed of the system but also on hardware components and cost of a project.
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