Practice Frame Allocation Strategies (20.4.1) - Belady's Anomaly - Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 3
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Frame Allocation Strategies

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is Belady's anomaly?

💡 Hint: Consider how pages are organized and accessed in memory.

Question 2 Easy

What does FIFO stand for?

💡 Hint: Think of a line where the first person in is the first person served.

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Question 1

What does the term 'Belady's anomaly' refer to?

A method of page replacement
An increase in page faults with more frames
A decrease in memory usage

💡 Hint: Consider situations where the assumption fails.

Question 2

True or False: The LRU algorithm can exhibit Belady's anomaly.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how LRU adapts to usage patterns.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a sequence of memory accesses and two different page frames, calculate the page faults experienced using both FIFO and LRU methods.

💡 Hint: Keep track of the pages in memory at each access.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a potential improvement to enhance frame allocation strategies in a multitasking environment and explain how it would optimize performance.

💡 Hint: Think about balancing workload and resource availability.

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