External fragmentation occurs when there are many small free ___________ scattered throughout the memory.
- Blocks
- Pages
- Partitions
- Segments
External fragmentation happens when there are many small free memory blocks scattered throughout the memory, but the total free memory is sufficient to satisfy a process's memory request. This fragmentation reduces the efficiency of memory utilization as it may prevent larger processes from being allocated memory even though there is enough free space overall.
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