Practice Memory Management In Virtual Memory Systems (10.2)

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Question 1.
What is a page fault?
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Think about what happens if memory access fails.
Question 2.
What does a page table do?
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Relate it to how processes manage their addressing.
3Question 3.
What is a page fault?
- A system alert
- An event when accessing non-loaded memory
- A hardware failure
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Think of memory access issues.
4Question 4.
True or False: Page tables are used to manage virtual to physical address mappings.
- True
- False
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Consider what a page table's purpose is.
Question 5.
Consider a system with a 16 KB page size and a process requiring 35 KB of memory. How many pages will that process utilize, and what will be the internal fragmentation?
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Calculate how many full pages fit in the process size and consider the remainder.
Question 6.
Describe a scenario where using a page replacement algorithm other than LRU might be beneficial. Justify your choice.
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Think about situations where patterns of access are known.

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