Will the size of the memory allocated within various(code,data,stack &
heap) segments for a process, be always multiple of 'page' size?

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, qazmlp wrote:

> Will the size of the memory allocated within various(code,data,stack &
> heap) segments for a process, be always multiple of 'page' size?

Yes; a page is the smallest unit of memory managed by the kernel.  (A bit
of a simplification, I know.)

Well, let me expand on that a bit: the segment size will be a multiple
of the page size, but those segments may contain multiple lumps that
are not any integer multiple of the page size.

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"qazmlp" <qazmlp1209@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
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> Will the size of the memory allocated within various(code,data,stack &
> heap) segments for a process, be always multiple of 'page' size?

That's a meaingless question. It all depends upon what your definition
of "allocated" is.

DS

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