Contiguous Memory Allocation

• The memory is usually divided into two partitions:
  • one for the resident OS
  • one for the user processes.
• We can place the OS in either low memory or high memory (depends on the location of the interrupt vector).
• We usually want several user processes to reside in memory at the same time. We therefore need to consider how to allocate available memory to the processes that are in the input queue waiting to be brought into memory.
• In this contiguous memory allocation, each process is contained in a single contiguous section of memory.