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Consider contiguous allocation of physical memory to processes using variable partitioning scheme. Suppose there are 8 holes in the memory of sizes
20KB,4 KB,
25 KB,18 KB,7 KB,9 KB,15 KB, and
12 KB. Assume that no two holes are adjacent. Two processes
P1 of size
16 KB and
P2 of size
9 KB arrive in that order, and they are allocated memory using the best-fit technique. After allocating space to
P1 and
P2, the number of holes of size less than
8 KB is
. (answer in integer)