Practice Understanding Belady's Anomaly - 20.1.1 | 20. Belady's Anomaly | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 3
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Question 1

Easy

What is Belady's Anomaly?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens during page replacement.

Question 2

Easy

Define FIFO.

💡 Hint: Consider how items are managed in a queue.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is Belady's Anomaly?

  • A type of page fault
  • An increase in page faults despite more frames
  • An algorithm type

💡 Hint: Think about scenarios with page management.

Question 2

True or False: FIFO always minimizes page faults.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Recall the conditions under which FIFO performs poorly.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Given a reference string of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 5, simulate the page faults with both 3 and 4 frames using FIFO. Analyze the results.

💡 Hint: Count hits and misses carefully for both. How does the outcome reveal Belady's Anomaly?

Question 2

Discuss how LRU can avoid the pitfalls of FIFO in terms of page replacement choices. Provide an example scenario.

💡 Hint: Think about which page ended up being evicted under FIFO versus LRU.

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