Practice - Concept of Thrashing
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Practice Questions
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What is thrashing?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during high page faults.
What does Belady's anomaly describe?
💡 Hint: Consider how memory pages interact when frames increase.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is thrashing?
💡 Hint: It occurs when memory management is inefficient.
True or False: LRU can exhibit Belady's anomaly.
💡 Hint: Think about how LRU manages pages compared to FIFO.
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Challenge Problems
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Examine the following access pattern: 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 2, 1. Determine the page faults with 2, 3, and 4 frames.
💡 Hint: Analyze the replacement priority based on the algorithm.
Given a write-heavy application, suggest a memory management strategy to mitigate thrashing while ensuring data integrity.
💡 Hint: Think about how to balance between writing to disk and keeping active pages in RAM.
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