On table fragmentation in virtual memory management
I Rattan, L P S Singh · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1986
Virtual memory management (VMM) schemes have been in use for several years. All the text books on Operating Systems, including the widely used ones [1, 2], present the ideas involved in some detail. However, none of these provides details of a rather important aspect, namely, table fragmentation. In [1] there is a passing reference (p. 229) "... The waste of storage due to excessively large tables is called table fragmentation", and in [2] there is no mention of it at all.