Practice - Handling Dirty Pages
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Practice Questions
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What is a dirty page?
💡 Hint: Think about a page's state after it's been changed.
Describe what happens to reference bits at the end of an interval.
💡 Hint: Consider what tracking is done during the interval.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a dirty page require before it can be replaced?
💡 Hint: Think about what would happen if it were not written.
The second chance algorithm is a part of which broader category of algorithms?
💡 Hint: Consider the principle of giving pages another chance.
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Challenge Problems
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Illustrate with an example how a sampled LRU could work differently from a basic LRU in a scenario with several repeated page accesses.
💡 Hint: Consider how the usage over time might differ between the two.
Design a situation where Belady’s anomaly occurs and discuss the implications on selecting page replacement strategies.
💡 Hint: Think of frame sizes and access sequences that interact unintentionally.
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