Practice - Overview of Inverted Page Table
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Practice Questions
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What is the main advantage of using an inverted page table?
💡 Hint: Think about how traditional page tables function.
What does each entry in an inverted page table contain?
💡 Hint: Consider what information is needed to identify a page.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does an inverted page table track?
💡 Hint: Remember the focus of inverted tables.
True or False: An inverted page table improves memory usage by maintaining a dedicated table for each process.
💡 Hint: Think about how inverted page tables function.
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Challenge Problems
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A system has 256MB of physical memory and supports up to 1024 processes running simultaneously, using inverted page tables. Calculate how many entries would be expected in the inverted page table if each process had a maximum address space of 1GB.
💡 Hint: Think about how physical memory size relates to the number of page frames.
How would you redesign an inverted page table for performance gains in a system designed for rapid context switching between processes?
💡 Hint: Consider how context switching might affect memory access patterns.
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