Practice Handling Page Faults (10.2.2) - Page Faults in Virtual Memory
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Handling Page Faults

Practice - Handling Page Faults

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a page fault?

💡 Hint: Think about memory and data access.

Question 2 Easy

Why do we use page tables?

💡 Hint: Consider their role in virtual memory management.

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Question 1

What triggers a page fault?

When a page is accessed in main memory
When a virtual page is absent in RAM
When data is incorrectly read

💡 Hint: Consider what conditions must exist for a page fault to happen.

Question 2

True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to better performance.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the potential trade-offs in memory management.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a system where a process needs to access 16KB of data but has a page size of 8KB. How many pages will be fetched, and what implications does this have for performance?

💡 Hint: Think about how total data size relates to page size.

Challenge 2 Hard

How might the strategy of using larger page sizes backfire in a multi-tasking environment with numerous processes? Discuss the potential issues.

💡 Hint: Consider the balance of memory allocation in a shared environment.

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