Practice - Page Buffering
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Practice Questions
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What is page buffering?
💡 Hint: Think about how pages are managed in memory.
Define ‘dirty page’.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens to modified data.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary purpose of page buffering?
💡 Hint: Think about reducing delays.
True or False: Page buffering waits for dirty pages to write before replacing a new page.
💡 Hint: Consider efficiency in memory management.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple operating system that illustrates the differences between fixed and proportional allocation with a given set of processes. What outcomes do you predict?
💡 Hint: Consider how different sizes of processes affect resource needs.
Given a scenario where several processes experience high page faults, analyze how implementing page buffering might change performance. Provide metrics for comparison.
💡 Hint: Think about the benefits of quick access to memory vs disk.
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