Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Here's an example: Fragmentation is 99% in a system with 5 Mbytes of free memory, when the largest block available for allocation is 50 kbytes. The 99%-fragmentation example comes from a real-life ...