Fragmentation Problems

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Are you confusing Disk fragmentation with Memory issues? Memory is RAM and
XP takes care of the reasonably. Disk fragmentation occurs whenever we save
files to disk.


"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hey,
>
> I have a question about fragmentation and I can't find any information of
> it. OK here it is:
>
> Some applications dynamically allocate and return memory, for example,
> object creation and destruction. The sizes of the required memory are not
> the
> same; neither are the durations of the allocated chunks of memory being in
> use. This type of memory allocation and returning activities are performed
> at
> the data section of a process image level. How would you suggest to avoid,
> alleviate, or solve memory fragmentation problems
>
> Bit of a tricky one
>
> thanks alot
>