Practice - Page Table Size and Memory Consumption
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary role of a page table?
💡 Hint: Think about how virtual addresses need to be related to physical memory.
What does a valid bit indicate in a page table entry?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens if the valid bit is set to 0.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of a page table in a virtual memory system?
💡 Hint: Recall how virtual addresses need to correspond with actual physical memory.
True or False: A valid bit set to 0 indicates that the page is in physical memory.
💡 Hint: Think about what should happen when you try to access an invalid page.
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Challenge Problems
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How would you design a memory management system considering 200 running processes each with a 4MB page table? Discuss implications.
💡 Hint: Think about memory fragmentation and access speed.
Propose a solution for efficiently managing the growth of segment and stack sizes in a program.
💡 Hint: Consider how segments interact within a virtual memory space.
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