Practice Priority Based Allocation - 20.4.4 | 20. Belady's Anomaly | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 3
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Question 1

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What does Belady's anomaly demonstrate?

💡 Hint: Think about frame counts.

Question 2

Easy

Define a page fault.

💡 Hint: Consider missed pages.

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Question 1

What is Belady's Anomaly?

  • A decrease in page faults with more frames
  • An increase in page faults with more frames
  • An irrelevant phenomenon

💡 Hint: Focus on the relationship between frames and faults.

Question 2

LRU stands for?

  • Least Recently Used
  • Last Remaining Utility
  • Latest Random Update

💡 Hint: Think about replacing what hasn't been used lately.

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Question 1

You have a reference string of pages: 7, 0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 4, and a system with 3-page frames. Calculate the number of page faults using FIFO.

💡 Hint: Remember how FIFO moves the oldest frame out.

Question 2

Analyze the efficiency of using Priority-based Allocation versus Fixed Allocation in a multi-process scenario with given process sizes.

💡 Hint: Think about the impact of priority on resource access.

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