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Quote: Dartmouth Time-Sharing using binary buddy system for disk allocation; fast and effective

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Topic:
disk allocation
Topic:
memory management by buddy system

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A variant of the binary buddy system that … are periodically reallocated. The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) … Internal fragmentation varies from 2-6 percent, and external … is spent executing the algorithm. In addition, most … 1.5, and the upper bound is t. [t is 24 for DTSS, a new extent at least doubles the length of a file]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: binary buddy disk allocation has 2-6% internal fragmentation and 0-10% external fragmentation; most files contiguous
Quote: binary buddy disk allocation assigns up to 24 extents per file; reallocates as needed; average 1.5 extents

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