Practice - Explanation of LRU
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Practice Questions
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Define Belady's anomaly in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think of examples of how faults behave with increased frames.
What does LRU stand for?
💡 Hint: It relates to how memory pages are managed and accessed.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is Belady's anomaly?
💡 Hint: Consider scenarios in which you'd see this phenomenon.
True or False: The LRU algorithm can exhibit Belady’s anomaly.
💡 Hint: Think back on how LRU pages are selected and replaced.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a sequence of page requests and four frames, evaluate the efficiency of both LRU and the Optimal algorithms. What differences do you observe in page faults?
💡 Hint: List your page hits and faults for each frame accordingly.
Design and justify a frame allocation scheme for a varied workload environment with example scenarios for each type (fixed, proportional, and priority).
💡 Hint: Consider applications with distinct memory needs.
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