This diagram shows an example of memory configuration under dynamic partitioning, after a number of placement and swapping-out operations have been carried out.

Addresses go from left to right; gray areas indicate blocks occupied by processes; white areas indicate free memory blocks. The last process placed is 2-Mbyte and is marked with an X. Only one process was swapped out after that.

a. What was the maximum size of the swapped-out process?
b. What was the size of the free block just before it was partitioned by X?

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4M MIX | 5M 2M 4M 3M SM