A drawback of equal or proportional allocation is that
A) they are very expensive to compute.
B) the processes that arrive earlier get more pages than the processes arriving later.
C) the allocation varies according to the degree of multiprogramming.
D) a high-priority process is treated the same as a low-priority process.

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Equal or proportional allocation methods do not differentiate between processes based on their priority. Every process is allocated memory based on equality or proportionality without considering its priority, leading to a situation where high-priority processes are treated the same as low-priority processes.

A Drawback of Equal or Proportional Allocation Is That